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Phoenicurus auroreus (PALL.). (253) 
g ad., No. 105, Hakodafe, Nov. 8, 1883; 9 ad., No. 337, ibid., Sept. 17, 1883. U.S. 
Nat. Mus., Nos. 12345-6. 
Identical with birds from the southern islands and from China. 
Young Japanese birds in the first plumage are among the desiderata 
of the U. S. National Museum. 
Ianthia cyanura (PALL.). (251) 
g ad., No. 161, Hakodate, Nov. 5, 1883. 9 92 ad., No. 162, May 5, 1884; No. 967, 
April 29, 1884. U.S. Nat. Mus., Nos. 120344, 120359-60. 
U.S. National Museum would like to get young birds in the first 
plumage. 
Melodes calliope (PALL.). (252) 
Two ad. gg, No. 219, Hakodate, Oct. 8, 1884; No. 793, ibid., Sept. 12, 1886. U.S. 
Nat. Mus., Nos. 120342-3. 
Quite similar to the scarlet-throated males from Kamtchatka, China, 
Nagasaki, and. the Yayeyama Islands. These are all characterized by 
having the lower fore-neck and upper breast more or less olive-gray 
(Ridgw., Nomenel. Col., pl. ii, no. 14), and the first one or two rows of 
feathers back of the scarlet throat pure white with a blackish band 
across the tips. Two scarlet-throated birds collected by Capt. Blak- 
iston in Yezo (6, U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 96269, Yubutz, May 18, 1882; 
Blak., No. 2858. 2, Mus. No. 26271, Mukawa, May 26, 1882; Blak., No. 
2862) differ considerably from all the other specimens before me. The 
whole under parts are lighter and whiter medially; the gray is entirely 
absent on lower fore-neck and breast, these parts being of a very pale 
clay color (Ridgw., Nomenel. Col., pl. v, no. 8); and there are only a 
few grayish spots to indicate the blackish band noted above. Both of 
Blakiston’s birds are collected in May, but some of the other specimens 
are obtained during the same month, or even later in the summer, so 
that season does not seem to have anything to do with this difference, 
but it may be that it is due to age. At all events, here is an inter- 
esting question well worth the attention of the Japanese field ornithol- 
ogists. Does the Ruby-throated Nightingale breed in Yezo or in the 
Kurils, and, in such a case, how are the breeding birds colored with 
reference to the above differences? The young in the first plumage of 
this common bird are apparently yet unknown and would be a great 
prize. Not being on the mainland of Kamtchatka at the proper time, I 
inyself was unable to secure any in that plumage. 
Larvivora cyane (PALL.). (240) 
Of this species Capt. Blakiston says (Chrysanth., February, 1683): 
“This is by no means an abundant species in Japan, and I know of 
only one female specimen, which is in the Education Museum;” and 
during his many years of collecting in Japan he only obtained one speci- 
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