February 6, 1903 Vol. Ill, pp. 93-97 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 



STEJNEGER'S CATALOGUE OF BIRDS THUS FAR 



RECORDED FROM THE LIU KIU ISLANDS, 



JAPAN, REVISED WITH ADDITIONS 



TO DATE. 



BY OUTRAM BANGS. 



At the close of an article on birds from the Lin Kiu Islands, 

 in the Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum, Vol. X, 1887, 

 pp. 414 and 415, Dr. Leonhard Stejneger gave a complete list of 

 all species that, up to that date, had been recorded from the Liu 

 Kiu Islands. In 1900 the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 received from Mr. Alan Owston a fine collection of Liu Kiu birds, 

 which brought the number of species from seventy-seven in 

 Stejneger's list to ninety-nine. 1 It therefore seems worth while to 

 publish a revised list of the birds of these islands, which I do with 

 Dr. Stejneger's full approval and consent. The new list is made 

 to conform, as much as possible, to Dr. Stejneger's old one, and 

 the same systematic sequence is followed. Some of the generic 

 names are not the ones used by Stejneger, and possibly his views 

 are really the correct ones (for example, Janthce/ias jouyi and J. 

 janthina vs. Co/umba jouyi and C. janthind), but in this respect I 

 have tried to bring the nomenclature up to date. 



In the following list the particular island from which a species 

 has been recorded is not stated, but this can be ascertained easily 



1 On a collection of birds from the Liu Kiu Islands, Outram Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zob'l., 

 Vol. XXXVI, no. 8, pp. 255-269, July, 1901. 



