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greeu or grcvisli brown^ uliich is more or less tliickly and 

 evenly spotted Avitii rusty brown and purplisli grey. Other 

 specimens are bright bluish green, with fewer and darker 

 spots distributed round the larger end. Between these two 

 extremes intermediate variations oceur in the eleven elutehes 

 in my possession. The dimensions vary from 119x 75 to 

 1-0 X -81 in. 



5. Larvivoua cyane (Pall.). Siberian Blue llobin. 

 Erithacus cyaneus Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 53. 

 Larvivora cyane Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 358. 

 Jap. : Koruri. 



(l^Jig-, PI. IV. fig. 6.) 

 This si)ceies is fairly abundant in the Subashiri woods, 

 and was especially noticeable when I first arjived. about the 



Text-fi-r. 1. 



'Sectional drawing' of tlie nest of Larcivora ci/aii". 



middle of May, owing to the numbers of males that were 

 then singing : they had probably only just taken up their 

 summer-quarters. This bird lives in the dense forest under- 

 growth and rarely shews itself^ in consequence of which the 

 females are hardly ever seen, and the only female observed 

 by me was that procured for tlie identification of the nest. 

 It does not possess much of a song, but utters a loud musical 

 chatter, somewhat resembling the cry of the Japanese llobin 

 [Erithacus akahi(/e). a bird, curiously enough, that 1 never met 

 ■with in a wild state, although it is very common in cages. 

 On JNlay 31bt I fouiul a nc^t of />. cijanc containing four eggs 



