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lensis has been obsei'ved westward of Nepal ; and to the eastward 

 of that province the P. err/throcephala would seem to be un- 

 common. 



The species of true Pyrrhula, at the present known to me, 

 are accordingly the following : — 



1. P. NiPALENSis, Hodgson, As. Res. xix. p. 155; Gould's 

 Birds of Asia, pt. v. 



Hah. Nepal, Sikhim, Bootan. 



2. P. ERiTHACUs, Blyth. (Plate X.) 



Hab. Mountains on the borders of Nepal and Sikhim. 



3. P. ERYTHROCEPHALA, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 174; 

 Gould's Century, pi. 32 ; Birds of Asia, pt. v. 



Hab. W. Himalaya., Nepal ; rare in Sikhim and Bootan. 



4. P. AURANTiACA, Gould, P.Z.S. 1857, p. 222; Birds of 

 Asia, pt. 10. 



Hab. Kashmir. 



5. P. GRiSEivENTRis, Lafresuaye, Rev. Zool. 1841, p. 241 ; 

 P. orientalis, Schlegel, Faun. Jap. Ois. pi. 53; Gould's Birds 

 of Asia, pt. V. 



Hab. Japan. 



6. P. cocciNEA, De Selys ; P. major, Brehm ; Loxia pyr- 

 rhula, Linn. 



Hab. Europe (not the British Islands) ; Azores. 



7. P. VULGARIS, Ray, Gould's Birds of Europe, pi. 209. 

 Hab. Europe (inclusive of the British Islands), but not Scan- 

 dinavia ? 



XXXV . — Notes on the Ornithology of Northern Japan. 

 By Robert Swinhoe, F.Z.S. 



A CASUAL notice in 'The Ibis' (1859, p. 205) of two new species 

 of Lusciniopsis, described by Mr. Cassin in the ' Proceedings of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia' for 1858, 

 pp. 191-196, has recently led me carefully to peruse the article 

 there referred to. As the avifauna of Japan necessarily lies 

 within the scope of the ornithology of Eastern Asia, to which I 

 particularly devote my attention, I would solicit permission to 



