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twenty feet from the ground, contained three fresh eggs on 

 May 27th^ while fully fledged young were discovered two 

 days later, facts which seem to indicate that the species rears 

 at least two broods in the season. Its eggs resemble 

 those of Ligiirinus chloris (Linn.), and measure about 

 0-79 X 0-55 in. 



The Japanese Hawfinch (Coccothraustes personatus) was 

 not an uncommon cage-bird, but I did not encounter it in a 

 wild state : the Common Hawfinch (C vulgaris) was likewise 

 only seen in cages. 



40. Pyruhula GiiisEivENTRis Lafr. Oriental Bullfinch. 

 Pyrrhula griseiventris Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 129. 

 Jap. : Uso. 



Although so common as a cage-bird I found this species 

 by no means plentiful in any of the districts that I visited. 

 I once or twice heard its note, which is a pipe not unlike 

 that of P. europoia VieilL, near the village of Subashiri, but 

 met with it more freely on the slopes of Fuji at an altitude 

 of about five thousand feet. 



41. Passer montanus Linn. Tree-Sparrow. 

 Passer montanus Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 130. 

 Jap. : Suzume. 



A¥herever there are towns and villages the Tree-Sparrow 

 may be found abundantly in all parts of the Emj)ire, nesting 

 principally under the tiles of the living-houses and more 

 rarely in the holes of trees. As is the case throughout the 

 East, the Japanese bird is much more domesticated than the 

 European P. niontanus and is inseperably associated with 

 human dwellings. 



42. Emberiza ciopsis Bp. Japanese Meadow-Bunting. 

 Emberiza ciopsis Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 131. 



Jap. : Hojiro. 



This Bunting is widely distributed and very common in 

 most of the Japanese islands. It has a moderately good, if 

 somev/hat short, song, which it usually utters from the top 

 or jutting branch of a tree. Compared with its European 



