194 Canon Tristram on Birds from Korea. 



discrepancy of size and a sliade of the general colour of the 

 plumage. 



27. Tringoides macularius. 



Tringa macularia, Linn. Syst. Nat, i. p. 249. 



Tringoides macularius, Baird^ Brew., & Ridgw. Water-B. 

 ofN. Am. i. p. 301. 



" Observed amongst the rocks on the sea-shore.''^ 



Mr. Devis's specimen is an adult bird in spotted plumage, 

 and was shot in April. 



XVII. — On a small Collection of Birds from Korea. 

 By H. B. Tristram, D.D., F.R.S. 



I HAVE received a small collection of birds made by Lieut. G. 

 Gunn, R.N., who has been for a few months employed in 

 H.M.S. ' Flying Fish,^ on the survey of the coast of Korea. 

 Lieut. Gunn informs me he has never been able to get inland 

 beyond the shore, and that the birds were all obtained at the 

 water's edge or on board ship. Though there is nothing 

 novel in the collection, which contains only eight specimens of 

 as many species, yet, as absolutely nothing is known of the 

 avifauna of Korea, I have thought it might not be without 

 interest to give a list of what Lieut. Gunn has procured. The 

 specimens are as follows : — 



1. ASIO OTDS (L.). ? . 



2. Scops stictonotus, Sharpe. 



An unusually dark-coloured specimen. 



3. Caprimulgus jotaka, Temm. & ScM. $ . 

 Also very dark -coloured. 



4. Cecropis japonica (Temm. & ScliL). ^ . 



5. Nemoricola indica (Gm.). 



I am not aware that this bird (shot in July) has been re- 

 corded from this region. It no way differs in plumage from 

 Indian winter-shot specimens, and was obtained on a sand 

 spit. 



