NO. 1144. BIRDS OF THE KURIL ISLANDf^—STE.TNEaER. 291 



mjiteriiil sii(Tici<'nl Cor H(^|)ai!itinf( (li<^ Kuril birds foinuilly, Imf, would 

 HUji'gesI, (hat Mic, (iiicstJon be, kopt in mind and aMrinpIs made, f.o s<M;ure 

 additional material. 



Tlio youn^' in tlic, (irst pinmatjc- bein^' hitluirto nn(l<'„s(5rib<'d 1 Hiibmit 

 tlio Ibllowinj; dcHcription of Kitaiiara'n Cliirnoi specimen: 



Young in Jirnt phmiage. — (Jhirnoi JHlands, Kurils. Hcionce Oollego 

 MuHonm, Imperial University, Tokyo. Upper surfacio dark brownish 

 gray, vavM feather with an (xihiiieeous shaftstrc^ak which widens 

 toward the tip and is <Mlged with blackish; under side ochraeeous, 

 paler on throat, and belly, the fc/athers more or less broadly edged with 

 dusky, giving a. scaly appearance eHi>eeiaJly to tlie breast; wings above 

 dark brownish gray, the outer edge of th(5 feathers maigined with 

 tawny oliv(i, and the coveits, except primary coverts, with an apical 

 spot of a lighter tint approaching ochra(;eous; tail-feathers dark biown- 

 ish gray, the outer inairgins washed with tawny olive, esj)ecially toward 

 the base. 



DimeriHionH. — Wing, 75 mm.; tail-featherH, 57 mm.; exposed cnlmeii, 

 10 mm.; tarsus, ^it) mm.; middh-, toe with claw, li2 mm. Wing foriiiiila: 

 I'Mist piimary, L'."") mm. long; second ^hortcir than sixth; third e(|uals 

 fourlh; longest, 7 mm. longer than second. 



115. MONTICOLA MANILLA (Bodda6rt). 256. 



Snow enumerates this species, under the name M. xolUaria, as occur- 

 ring in the Kurds, but, tliere is no releron(;o to specjimens and I do not. 

 know of any l)eiMg on record. 



('uriously enough there are no records of thrushes occurring in Iturup 

 or any of tlie other islands. 



116. PRATINCOLA MAURA (Pallas). 254. 



There is one specimen in th(^ Seebolim collection, tVom the Kurils,' 

 coUectcid by Hnow, but no further lo<'ality is given. 



117. LOCUSTELLA OCHOTENSIS (Middendorff). 238. 



Breeding on the Kiirils, and probably found on all the islands covered 

 by any grass at all, for on August liU, ISiKI, I found a small colony on 

 the little Mushir Long Jiock, where they had a peculiar way of concjcal- 

 iiig theriwelv<*-s in the rank l<UymuH glass, darting out a.nd in between 

 the tufts with gri^at dext.erit.y. 



At Shana, Iturup, on SeptiMuber <», aftei- a heavy gale onshore (juite 

 a nund)er of these birds came on board the vessel, and two were jue- 

 served, both young femahNS. 



Wosnessenski collected this species (»n Uiiip in IH'll, and one of his 

 specimens is in the 8eebohm collec^tion.^ Fukushi collected it on Iturup, 

 according to Hlakiston and Pryeiv' 



' n. .I:ii>. Kill))., J.. .57. ''rago 15«. 



adcin, p. 73. 



