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List of specimens. 
Original | Museum 
Tae Sex. Locality. Date. Remarks. 
769 91437 d ad. | Matsumoto, Shinshiu ...-.-. Nov. 5,1882) Iris reddish brown; bill lav- 
857 91488 Q ad. | Tate-Yama, Shinshiu --..-. Dec. 9, 1882 ender, washed with brown- 
ish, tip dusky; tarsi and 
toes lilaceous. 
Eophona personata (T. & §.). Temm. et Schl., Faun. Japon., 1847, Aves, pl. lii, p. 
91; Whitely, Ibis, 1867, p. 201; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1877, p. 145; Blakiston and 
Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, Vol. X, Pt. I, 1882, p. 175. 
This species probably breeds on Fuji- Yama, as specimens were taken 
in June and July, but it is apparently not very common. It was also 
found in Shinshiu in winter. 
List of specimens. 
Original | Museum 
cabaret | anmber, | So Locality. Date. “Remarks. 
352 88678 | June 30,1882} Bill chrome yellow, base 
SH) Vil oakio Seesee June 30, 1882 slightly greenish ; feet pale 
359 88679 --| June 3/, 1882 flesh color. 
avi > |eesieeees ---|July 1, 1882 
864 ae Dec. 12, 1882 | Iris dark reddish brown; bill 
pale yellow, base slightly 
greenish; tarsi and toes 
pale flesh color. 
Loxia albiventris Swinh. Temm. et Schl., Faun. Japon., 1847, Aves, p.93; Swinhoe, 
Ibis, 1875, p. 450; Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, Vol. X, Pt. 
I, 1882, p. 176. 
Crossbills were exceedingly plentiful in Shinshiu from about the 
middle of October. We were informed by the natives that they made 
their appearance in considerable numbers about every third year. At 
such times many people are employed catching them, and a consider- 
able number are destroyed. The site for a bird-catcher of this descrip- 
tion is on the summit of a hill, where there are a few trees, generally 
firs or pines. Selecting a suitable tree in which to hang his cages of 
decoy birds, he proceeds to make a broom-like arrangement of fir branches 
by wrapping them on the end of a long pole; into this he thrusts a few 
slender twigs, which have been coated with bird-lime. Resting the 
pole against the tree, and allowing the limed twigs to project through 
the top, he lies in wait at a suitable distance off, quietly smoking his 
pipe, until some passing flocks of siskins or crossbills are attracted by 
the singing of the birds in the cages and alight on the twigs. Taking 
the old twigs out, with the birds fluttering and struggling on them, ‘he 
puts new ones in their places and is ready for the next flock. 
Some specimens, males, are curiously mottled with red, green, and 
orange, and some females have a decided reddish tinge to the feathers. 
