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eastern form of the Great Bustard, It is somewhat smaller 

 than the western bird, the bill is slightly longer and more 

 slender, the head is paler in colour, and the lesser wdng- 

 coverts are grey, like the gi-eater and median wing-coverts, 

 instead of being mottled with brownish buff and black, like 

 the back. Dybowsky states that he has obtained both adult 

 and young from Dauria ; and what seem to be young males 

 of the western form in the Cambridge Museum have the 

 lesser wing-coverts coloured as in the adult, so that it would 

 appear that the species is distinct. 



Lagopus rupestris ? 



A specimen of a Ptarmigan was shot by Mr, Snow on the 

 nearest of the Kurile Islands to Kamtschatka, which is pro- 

 bably the Rock-Ptarmigan. It is pure white, except the 

 tail-feathers and the lores, which are black. 



COLUMBA LIYIA, 



An example from Nagasaki is darker than usual. The 

 Rock-Doves of Japan may be escaped birds which have taken 

 possession of the caves on the coast ; they occupy all the 

 temples in Japan, and are fed by tlie devotees of Buddha. 



TURTUR HUMILIS. 



An example sent by Mr. Owston was obtained from a 

 dealer at Yokohama, and was said to have been shot in the 

 neighbourhood. 



Carpophaga ianthina. 



A fine example collected by Mr. Pryer near Yokohama 

 agrees with the figure in the ' Fauna Japonica.' Two examples 

 collected by Mr. Ringer in Nagasaki are now in the British 

 Museum . 



Iyngipicus seebohmi, Hargitt, Ibis, 1884, p. 100. 



Mr, Oldfield Thomas has kindly compared examples of 

 /, kisuki and this species with the types of the former in 

 the Leyden Museum, and assures me that Temminck and 

 SchlegePs bird is unquestionably the same as examples col- 

 lected by Mr, Ringer near Nagasaki on the island of 

 Kiushiu. 



