316 BIRDS FROM YEZO, JAPAN—STEJNEGER. | 
specimens from Shanghai, China, and from Corea. None of them 
show any inclination toward 7. ruficollis PALL., being in every respect 
quite typical. 
Measurements. 
FI | 
= si} 
; ed ee Z a4 
| vo ml - 
‘ 1 s } && 2 a Oo, ee 
U.S. Nat. | Collector ard a Trocainiy: Tate. a = Ss E bp 
Mus. No. No. | : el nie eel ena ee 
las op | & Oe ashe a ey 
BG eee 
a b e] wo 
D ra Aa Mit = TN sei ne 
120332 | Henson, 77..--| ad.| Hakodate, Yezo......| Mar. 15, 1884 | 135 | 90 {| Sola e88 27 
120833 || Henson 182s |(G eda CO eee petra aloe eee O}e secre 125 |} 89! 18) 33 27 
96291 | Blak., 3212..-.|@ ad.| Sapporo, Yezo....... Oct. 23,1882|130| 93] 18|31| 27 | 250 
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Turdus pallidus GM. (259.) 
Mr. Henson sends two specimens, No. 744, Hakodate, November 23, 
1885, apparently an old male, and No. 807, November 7, 1835, a younger 
bird of the same sex. (U.S. Nat. Mus. Nos. 120334-5.) 
This species appears to be very rare in Yezo, for it seems that Capt. 
Blakiston did not obtain it in that island, though he was able to com- 
pare a specimen, apparently in the Hakodate museuin, with his Chinese 
examples. Whitely only collected one specimen. These two speci- 
mens, with those of Mr. Henson, appear to be the only ones obtained 
so far in the North Island. 
In Hondo the species occurs more frequently, as well as in Kiusiu, 
and in the Liukiu Islands, though by no means a common bird. All 
the specimens which I have seen were winter birds, and I do not think 
there is any valid record of the species breeding in the country. 
IT can discover no differences beyond individual variation in a series 
of eighteen examples from the various Japanese islands, Corea, China, 
Liukiu, and Formosa. 
Turdus chrysolaus Temm. (263) 
Two specimens from Hakodate (é ad., No. 234, May 20, 1885; and a 
younger unsexed specimen, No. 721, October 4, 1884, U.S. Nat. Mus. 
Nos. 120336-7) agree with others of the same species from Hondo, 
Kiusiu, Liukiu, and Corea. The male is perfectly adult, with uniformly 
dusky throat and without light tips to the greater upper wing coverts; 
but there are a few dusky spots on the sides of the breast. These are 
only “recollections,” not “remnants,” of the first plumage. This speci- 
men is also interesting as being taken later in spring than any of the 
others examined by me. Compared with the breeding male of 7. jowyt 
(July 2) it bears out the difference in the coloration of the throat in 
the two species, as pointed out in the original description of the latter 
(Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, p.5). I can throw no further light upon 
this form, and additional specimens of these birds from various parts 
of Japan, and collected at all seasons of the year, are very desirable. 
