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of tlie eye was so, but the ball and horny sheath, these being 

 also of an ovoid shape, so that it required no measurement to 

 see that the length of the eye considerably exceeded its 

 height. 



XXXVIII. — Further Contributions to the Ornithology of Japan. 

 By Henry Seebohm. 



Amongst a small number of birds which have been sent to 

 me for examination by the Government of Japan, through 

 Mr. H. Pryer, are several deserving of notice. 



DiOMBDEA NIGRIPES. 



This Albatross was first recorded from Japan a year ago 

 (Ibis, 188-1, p. 176), a female having been shot on the 17th 

 of May. I have now to record a second example obtained 

 on the coast of the province of Sagami, near Yokohama. It 

 is a male, the label being dated the 27th of February. 



NUMENIUS MINOR. 



The sole record of the occurrence of this little Curlew in 

 Japan has hitherto been that of the ' Fauna Japonica ' of 

 Temminck and Schlegel, and this is now confirmed by a 

 female example obtained at Giotoku, near Yokohama, on the 

 3rd of October, 1883. This species may be regarded as the 

 Asiatic representative of the Eskimo Curlew : breeding in 

 Eastern Siberia, passing along the coasts of China and Japan 

 on the spring and autumn migration, and wintering in 

 Australia. 



TOTANUS CALIDRIS. 



A young male Redshank, in first plumage, obtained on the 

 4th of September, 1883, at Giotoku, not very far from Yo- 

 kohama, adds a new bird to the Japanese list. It is remark- 

 able that a bird breeding almost throughout the Palsearctic 

 Region and wintering in Africa, India, Burma, and the 

 islands of the Malay archipelago, should not have been found 

 long ago on migration in Japan. 



