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esting is the fact that the five inner primaries also are molting, and that 
the central pair of the new tail-feathers are just emerging from the 
sheaths, thus proving that the regular molt of the rectrices and remiges 
in the first autumn is not confined to the European Starling. Nor are 
these two species unique in this respect, for, as has been shown under 
Sturnia violacea, this unusual molt is quite as normal in the latter 
species. 
I have always believed that the Old World Sturnine are closely re- 
lated to the American Jcterine, notwithstanding the difference in the 
number of primaries. Mr. Ridgway and I at once set to work examin- 
ing the large material in the national collection, and found that the 
young of the American Jcterine molt their quills and tail-feathers dur- 
ing the first autumnal molt exactly as do the true starlings. Of course, 
the material was not sufficient to prove it in every species and genus, 
but we found it in all cases in the genera Quwiscalus, Scolecophagus, 
Agelaius, Sturnella, Molothrus, Dolichonyax. 
This fact seems to add evidence of great importance in support of 
the opinion that Jcterine and Sturnine are next kin. 
Garrulus brandtii EversM. (198) 
Two specimens, ¢ and 9 ad.; Henson coll., Nos. 185, 132, Hakodate, September 18 
and October 11, 1884; U.S. Nat. Mus., Nos. 120486-7. 
English ornithologists assert that they can discover no difference be- 
tween Japanese specimens and those from Altai, Siberia, whence came 
the type. 
Itis curious to note that many authors recognize the present form as 
a distinct species while treating of G. japonicus as a mere geographical 
variety of G. glandarius. True, the latter are quite similar in the gen- 
eral coloration, but the loral region, the primaries, and the tertiaries 
are quite differently colored without any trace of intergradation or 
variation. In all these points G. brandtii agrees with G. glandarius, the 
chief difference between them consisting in the strong wash of cinna- 
mon-rufous, which suffuses the head in G@. brandtii. In eastern Russia, 
moreover, there seems to exist a somewhat intermediate form, G. sever- 
zowi BOGDAN. 
Pyrrhula griseiventris LArr. (296) 
Nos. 242, ¢ ad., Hakodate, November 25, 1883; No. 243, 9 ad., Hakodate, Novem- 
ber 20, 1884; U.S. Nat. Mus., Nos. 120497-8. 
Being winter specimens, this pair does not add much towards tinally 
settling the status of P. rosacea. The male is quite typical of the latter 
phase, being nearly identical with No. 3 of my list (U.S. Nat. Mus., 
1887, p. 107), from Kiusiu.* | 
* Sharpe, in his Cat. B. Brit. Mus., xu, p. 832, enumerates three P. rosacea, two 
males and one female, as collected by C. MeVean in ‘“ Yezo.” This is evidently a 
mistake which is repéated in all the birds enumerated as coming from the same 
source. The locality in each case should be ‘“‘ Yedo,” the former name of Tokio, and 
the birds consequently came from the middle island and not from Yezo, 
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