THE IBIS. 



FOURTH SERIES. 



Ko. VII. JULY 1878. 



XVIII. — A Catalogue of the Birds of Japan. 

 By T. Blakiston and H. Pryer. 



The compilers have examined and compared all the specimens 

 of birds existing in the government museums at Tokio (Yedo) — 

 namely^ in the ^^Yamashita Hakui'aukai^^ of the "Naimusho " 

 (Home Department) _, in the "Kiyoiku Hakubutsukan'^ of the 

 ''Mombasho-" (Education Department)^ and in the Museum 

 of the " Kaitakushi" (Department for Agriculture) — as well as 

 the collections of Mr. N. Fukusi in Yezo, Mr. Ota of Tokio, and 

 Drs. Manning, Ahlburg, and Hilgendorf, and Mr. F. Binger 

 of Nagasaki. Mr. Ota's intimate knowledge of the birds of 

 his own country has been of much assistance ; and the Direc- 

 tor of the " Hakuraukai/^ Mr. Tanaka, has kindly offered 

 access to a collection of drawings by native artists. The 

 ' Fauna Japonica/ Swinhoe's " Revised Catalogue of the Birds 

 of China'' (P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 337-423), Mr. Swinhoe's various 

 contributions to 'The Ibis,' and Mr. Whitely's List (Ibis, 1867, 

 pp. 193-211) have been carefully gone over. The arrange- 

 ment adopted is that of Dr. Carl Claus in his ' Grundziige der 

 Zoologie.' 



1. Alga torda, L. 



Given in the list of the ' Fauna Japonica/ no figure. 



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