302 BIRDS FROM YEZO, JAPAN—STEJNEGER. 
A somewhat full description of this specimen may prove useful and . 
interesting to Japanese ornithologists. 
Forehead, supercilary stripe, a crescent across the middle of the ear- 
coverts, upper half of sides of neck, chin, and throat, delicate straw- 
yellow, the forehead, chin, and throat brighter, nearly Naples-yellow; 
upper portion of forehead spotted with black; fore part of crown and a 
line above the superciliary stripe black, forming, with the latter, a some- 
what pointed horizontal feather tuft above the ears; nasal feathers, 
lores, anterior portion of auriculars, and malar region, black; jugulum 
similarly colored, forming a large black crescent on the foreneck, not 
connected with the black cheek patch; auriculars apically drab-gray, 
forming a well-marked crescent which posteriorly cireumscribes the 
auricular region; posterior half of crown and occiput vinaceous drab, 
each feather obscurely striped with cinnamon-rufous; hindneck, as well 
as lower portion of sides of neck, pinkish vinaceous cinnamon, obscurely 
striped with dull cinnamon-rufous; back grayish wood-brown, more or 
less distinctly streaked with dusky brown; rump and some of upper 
tail-coverts strongly suffused with vinaceous cinnamon; under side of 
body from breast backwards white, flanks suffused with vinaceous cin- 
namon and streaked with dusky; wings above like the back, outer lesser 
and median coverts more or less vinaceous cinnamon medially striped 
with cinnamon-rufous and margined at the tip with whitish; greater 
wing-coverts, as well as most of the quills, similarly nargined in the 
apical half; under wing-coverts white, the outer ones with gray or 
dusky centers; middle pair of tail-feathers and longest upper coverts 
like the back, outer pair blackish brown with the outer webb whitish 
in the apical half, next pair with a corresponding very narrow white 
edge, otherwise like the rest of the rectrices, uniform brownish black. 
Bill pale, horny plumbeous; feet blackish brown. 
First (ninth) primary scarcely longer than third, but somewhat shorter 
than second, these three forming the tip of the wing; second, third, and 
fourth distinetly sinuated in outer web. 
Wing, 110™™; tail-feathers, 69"; exposed culmen, 10.5"™™; tarsus, 
22™™; middle toe, with claw, 17™. 
Alauda japonica TrEMM. and SCHL. (266) 
U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 120548 g ad., Henson No. 149; Hakodate, May 30, 1885; U.S. 
Nat. Mus, No. 120549 92 ad., Henson No. 150; Hakodate, April 3, 1884. 
Mr. Henson’s birds agree perfectly with numerous others from Yezo 
and Hondo. This is apparently the only lark breeding in Japan proper 
(excluding the Kurils), and from the description and the figure in 
Fauna Japonica (Aves, p. 87, pl. xlvii) it is to this smaller form that 
Temminck and Schlegel gave the name Alauda japonica, and not to 
the large one, asMr. Seebohm suggests (Ibis, 1884, p. 41); for not only 
do their measurements agree (wing 3 inches 9 lines, Pied du Roi= 
101", slightly less than the average male as given in the table below), 
