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were obtained by P. L. Jouy at Shanghai. We conclude 

 therefore that this is the species usually called R. striatus by 

 writers on Chinese ornithology. 



85. Stejneger on a second European Ring -ouzel. 



[On Tiirdus alpestris and Turdus torqnatus, two distinct Species of 

 European Thrushes. By Leonhard Stejneger. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 

 p. 365.] 



Dr. Stejneger lately discovered a new British Tit (see Ibis, 

 1887, p. 118). He now invites our attention to what will 

 perhaps be a still greater surprise to the benighted ornitho- 

 logists of Europe — the existence in our midst of a second 

 species of Ring-ouzel, the Turdus alpestris of Brehm. This 

 form of Central Europe Dr. Stejnejer maintains to be per- 

 fectly distinct from T. torquatus. It is figured in Dresser's 

 ' Birds of Europe ' t, 15, fig. Isev.) as a variety of the young 

 female in first winter plumage. 



86. Stejneger' s ' Review of Japanese Birds.' 



[Review of Japanese Birds. By Leonhard Stejneger. — II. Tits and 

 Nuthatches. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 374. III. Rails, Gallinules, 

 and Coots. Ibid. p. 395.] 



Dr. Stejneger now attacks the Tits and Nuthatches of 

 Japan, in continuation of his review of the Japanese ornis, 

 treating these groups as different subfamilies of a common 

 family, Paridse. Of Par'us he allows 6 Japanese species, of 

 JEgithalus 2, and of Remiza (a new generic name for Parus 

 pendulinus) 1 ; total 9 Japanese Parinse. Of Sitta, besides 

 Sitta amurensis, Dr. Stejneger makes two other Japanese 

 subspecies, S. amurensis clara (subsp. yov.) from Yesso, and 

 S. amurensis albifrons from the Kuriles. The Rails, Coots, 

 and Gallinules of Japan, according to Dr. Stejneger, number 

 7 species, concerning which full details are given. 



87. Stejneger on Synthliborhamphus wumizusume. 



[On the Status of Synthliboramphus wumizuswiie as a North-American 

 Bird. By L. Stejneger. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 524.] 



