Mr. R. Swinhoe on Birds from Hakodadi. 153 



Bonaparte, in his Conspectus, p. 222, puts this species 

 after T. europmis, and refers to it as " coloribus ohscuriorihvs 

 v'lx distinctus ! " He must either have had a bad specimen 

 to judge from, or he must have made a very hurried compa- 

 rison between the two species. Blakiston has sent a male 

 shot in February ; and I have a mutilated skin, without label, 

 received from Mr. Collingwood. The species has a compa- 

 ratively long tail, and comes nearer to some of the American 

 Wrens than to the European species*. It is of a rich reddish 

 brown on the upper parts, wings, and tail, browner on the 

 head and hind neck; the back, rump, wings, and tail are 

 banded with blackish brown ; the 2nd to the 5 th quills (re- 

 miges) having whitish spots on the outer web. The under- 

 parts are lighter brown, mottled on the breast and belly with 

 black, and barred on the under tail- coverts, which are tipped 

 with white ; under wdng-coverts and belly mottled with white. 

 Total length about 4*3 inches; wing 2*1, 3rd and 4th quills 

 equal and longest; tail 1*45, the outer feather '23 shorter 

 than centrals. 



8. Eastern Reed-Thrush. Calamoherpeorientalis{T.ScS.). 

 A male shot in May, with red rictus, whitish throat, and 



indications of streaks on the breast. 



9. Kamtschatkan Grasshopper-Lark. Locustella subcer- 

 thiola, sp. nov. 



Blakiston has now sent the same specimen which in 1863 

 I thought to be a pale L. ochotensis. The bird, however, 

 was not compared, and my identification was from memory 

 (see Ibis, 1863, p. 98). I have recived from Dr. v. Schrenck 

 at St, Petersburg two skins from Kamtschatka, marked L. cer- 

 thiola, that tally with Blakiston's bird. Von Schrenck found 

 the true L. certhiola in Amoorland ; for he speaks of it in his 



* [Mr. Swinhoe 's skin seems scarcely separable from the Winter-Wren 

 of North America, Troglodytes hyemalis, or at all events from the var. alas- 

 censis of Prof. Baird (Trans. Chicago Acad. 18G9, p. 315). As this form 

 of Wren, according to Mr. Dall (Proc. California Acad. March 14, 1871 ), 

 is a resident throughout the Aleutian Isles, and everywhere there " very 

 abundant and tame," we can easily understand its occurrence in Japan. — 

 P. L. S. 1 



