354 BIRDS FROM YEZO, JAPAN—STEJNEGER. 
The female is the first Yezo specimen of that sex which I have had 
an opportunity to examine. It differs in no way from specimens from _ 
the other two islands. 
Uragus sanguinolentus (TEMM. and Scut.). (289) 
A female collected at Hakodate, November 9, 1883, and a male col- 
lected six days later are in the collection (Nos. 115 and 114; U.S. 
Nat. Mus., Nos. 120500 and 120499). They agree with other specimens 
before me in every particular. 
Acanthis linaria holboellii (BREHM). (286-7) 
I have stated on several occasions (Auk, 1887, pp. 33-39, and Proce. U. 
S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, p. 487) that the only subspecies of Red-poll 
belonging to the Japanese fauna is the long-billed coast form, named 
as above.* Henson’s specimen (No. 241; U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 120501), 
which was collected at Hakodate, March 27, 1883, belongs eminently 
to this form. It is a male, without red on throat and breast, meas- 
uring as follows: 
Wing, 75™™; bill, from nostril, 9™™. All the tail-feathers are molting 
and still in their sheaths. 
Leucosticte brunneonucha (BRANDT). (288) 
A pair was collected by Henson near Hakodate in November, 1885 
(Henson, Nos. 87,88; U. S. Nat. Mus., Nos. 120501-2), agreeing in every 
respect with other winter birds from Yezo and from Hondo, fourteen 
specimens of which are now before me. A comparison of these with five 
from Kamtchatka, and four from Ussuri, on the mainland, show no per- 
ceptible differences. 
There is no record of this species having been observed in Japan 
proper during the breeding season, all the specimens hitherto obtained 
having been collected during the winter months, if we except a single 
specimen ¢ (No. 1951), shot by Capt. Blakiston at Hakodate, on May 5, 
1876. On the other hand, it has repeatedly been found in summer on 
the Kurile Islands. However, it may confidently be looked for during 
the breeding season along the seashore of Yezo, where there must be 
plenty of wild and precipitous rocks to suit the taste of these birds. 
During the summer the brown on the nape wears off and this part 
becomes a silvery white, more or less shaded with buff. The light 
*At the same time I was careful to remark that ‘it is reasonable to expect that : | 
both A. linaria and exilipes in winter may visit the northern island.” Since that was 
written Mr. Sharpe, in his Cat. B, Brit. Mus., XII, p. 249, refers two specimens from — 
“Japan” to typical A. linaria, with a wing 2.75 inches long, and in the synonymy — 
he refers Blak. and Pryer’s No. 287 to this form. The identification of the specimens 
in question is probably correct, but the quotation certainly refers to A. holboellii, — 
as [have already shown. This remark refers also to Sharpe’s quotation of Blak. | 
& Pryer’s 286 under 4. exilipes. 
