290 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Motacilla boarula L. Temm. et Schl., Fann. Japon., 1847, Aves, p. 59; Blakiston, 
Ibis, 1862, p. 318; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1874, p. 157; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 35; 
Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, Vol. X, Pt. I, 1882, p. 155. 
Seen at Fuji only, where it was tolerably common. 
List of specimens. 
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iginal Muse : 
sean | naniber Sex. Locality. Date. Remarks. 
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597 Joopceeee oad. | Rojee Vamae es eee | July 25, 1882 | 
618 88663 | 9 ad. | 
ae etes (Gy Bere Se Rairrrecy July 29, 1882 
Motacilla lugens T. & S. Temm. et Schl., Faun. Japon., 1847, Aves., pl. xxv, p. 60; 
Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, p. 319; Whitely, Ibis, 1867, p. 198; Swinhoe, Ibis, 
1874, p. 156, as japonica; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 34; Blakiston and Pryer, 
Trans. As. Soc. Japan, Vol. X, Pt. I, p. 155. 
Very common along the banks of streams; also in the paddy fields 
after the rice has been cut. 
List of specimens. 
Original | Muse | | | 
Se ae sien Ber! Sex. Locality. Date. Remarks. 
BAO TM tals cistern sy. Gyads 9) | iT aM Byes saree ae alae July 6,1882 
GOSY ta ore 7 oad. | Chiusenji Lake............- Sept. 3, 1882 
674 91368 9 ad. | Tate-Yama, Shinshiu....... Sept. 26, 1882 
677 91369 Giadl \lsaete2 COS eAAS is Ss3. saceeeee Sept. 26, 1882 
Wet | PA sih | eds | 
Hirundo gutturalis Scop. Swinhoe, Ibis, 1874, p. 151; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 29; 
Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, Vol. X, Pt. I, 1882, p. 139. 
These birds are familiar objects flying through the streets and darting 
into the native houses through open doors. Almost every house in a 
Japanese town has one or more little wooden shelves, placed just inside 
the door on one of the rafters of the ceiling, on which the swallows 
build their nests and rear their young. Nor is their confidence mis- 
placed; they are as sacred on their shelf as any of the household gods, 
an offer of money for which is considered an insult. I believe these 
swallows rarely build elsewhere than in the situations I have described. 
List of specimens. 
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Original | Museum 
ain bed nin Dore es | Locality. Date. Remarks. 
472 
Soa eeaee | 9 juv. 
Wnoji-VamMaye-ces- css seeener July 10, 1882 
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Chelidon blakistoni Swinh. Swinhoe, Proceed. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1862, p. 320; Swin- 
hoe, Ibis, 1863, p.90; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1874, p. 151; Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. 
As. Soc. Japan, Vol. X, Pt. I, 1882, p. 140. 
We found these birds breeding in considerable numbers on the sides of 
an inaccessible cliff or chasm on Fuji-Yama above the limit of forest 
growth. Their nests must have been composed largely of saliva, as 
there is no mud in that voleanic region. Many of the birds, when 
shot, had their mouths full of fine scoria dust, of which they were 
evidently making their nests. 
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