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A PRELIIVIINARY LIST OF THE BIRDS OF 



HOKKAIDO. 



BY 



S. Hatta, 



Professor of Zoology in Sapporo Agricultural College, 

 AND 



Shojiro Murata, 



Assistant Curator of the College Museum. 



The collection of the bird's skins in our College Museum now amounts 

 to more than 2500 in number. Among these are included the " Kaitakushi " 

 collection, and many from that of Blakiston in Hakodate ; the largest part, 

 however, has been collected during the last 30 years by several naturalists 

 connected with the Museum, but chiefly by our enthusiastic collector, Mr. S. 

 iMURATA. The birds, which are enumerated in the present list, are confined to 

 those which inhabit and frequent the islands of Hokkaido, the Kurile Chain 

 inclusive, while those from other localities will, it is hoped, be published on a 

 future occasion in the form of an explanatory catalogue, in which the birds in 

 the present list will, of course, be included, while their nests and egg-characters 

 as well as their food and habits will be added. 



The systematic arrangement adapted in our list is based on the classifica- 

 tion in "The Birds of the Japanese Empire" bj- ^Ir. H. SeebOHM (London, 

 1890). and also in the " List of the Birds of Japan '" by Prof. I. IjiMA (Tokyo, 



1891). 



S. Hatta. 

 Nov. 20, igoj. 



[Trans. Sapporo Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. I. 1905.] 



