858 BIRDS FROM YEZO, JAPAN—STEJNEGER. 
Il.— Measurements of Chloris k. minor. 
d = 
ARE BEANE: 
Te 1 Sex 5 5 be! 
U.S. Nat.| Collector and Locality. Date. Shes £2 | Remarks. 
Mus.No;| and No. ae : 2 — : x 
ge. 7 $3 = n oo 
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Flealaljals 
96367. | Blak.;3070.--| || Sapporo, Yezo -.-|'Oct.. —, ———)| 18" hens) Wile eee pees Molting. 
96359 | Blak.,1158--| (4) | Hakodate, Yezo-.-| Mar. —,——| 83 | 52 | 11.5)..--- [estceecs 
96364 | Blak., 1264.-| 9 ad.|....do......-..--- May —, = (‘or iaa tong. eezea ei 
88680 | Jouy, 506 ---) 2 ad.| Fuji, Hondo ..-... duly 13,1883 78) | 53)) 10. |seeeste anes 
91489 | Jouy, 938 --- oh Yokohama, Hondo} Jan. 10,1883 | 79 | 49 | 11 16: 5/cecoee 
85784 | Jouy, 10 .---| ¢ ad.| Yokoska, Hondo .| May 10,1881 | 79 | 51 | 11 |.-.--..]-.---. 
RB 7eb) | AlOny, 12s scs/o0 cad.|. Serio oss Peers Mayt= =| 75 a"| Taal soe ees 
96363 | Owst.,408.-.| (¢) | Yokohama,Hondo}...------.---- +S a fr te aU Ce PRR Bene 
96361 | Ringer, 3& -. ref Nagasaki, Kiusiu, Dec. 17, 1876 | 79 | 50 | 10.5).....|.----. 
114738 | Ringer, 30 ..| ¢ Aso- yama, Kiusiu| Jan. —, 1887 | 79 | 51 | 11 |.--.-|...--- | 
120504 | Henson, 226-| ¢ Hakodate, Yezo..| May 10,1886] 80 | 51} 11 {17.5} 18 | 
120505 | Henson, 227 - Or Nee SCO steniewsaacn Oct. 22; 1884 |).80.) HOU Le |S esl aera 
Average measurements of 12 specimens......-..-.--------------- EOP Ge aU) Oe aciieoss = 
Coccothraustes coccothraustes japonica (TEMM. AND SCHL.). (292) 
A pair. For particulars see “measurements” given below. 
The Hawfinch is one of the few birds which do not follow the rule 
that the representative forms in Japan are brighter and purer colored 
than the corresponding forms in Europe, for in the series of twenty-four 
birds before me it is easy enough to pick out the European specimens 
from those of eastern Asia by their brighter general coloration, with 
the exception of one (¢, U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 102932, Vosges, France, 
January, 1877, Mougel coll.), which can hardly be told apart from some 
Japanese specimens by color alone. True, Mr. R. B. Sharpe (Cat. B. 
Br. Mus., xu, p. 40) gives as a distinguishing character between the 
two forms, that in C. japonica the wing coverts are ‘ashy whitish or 
pale drab at the ends instead of whitish” in the typical western form, 
but this character does not hold at all, as two European males, the one 
referred to above and No. 114695 (Talamone, Italy, April, 1880), have 
these light tips quite as dingy as in the average Japanese bird, while - 
one of the latter (¢, U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 109372, Suruga, Hondo, Novem- 
ber 21,1884, Namiye coll.) has them purer white than any of the European 
examples at hand. And as with the males so with the females, some 
are indistinguishable by color alone, while in these also the European 
birds are, on the whole, somewhat brighter colored. 
There is one character, however, which seems to hold when others 
fail, viz, the greater height and bulk of the bill of typical C. cocco- 
thraustes. As will be seen from the tables of measurements given 
below, the two forms are identical in general size,* but the bills of the 
European birds are considerably larger. The lower mandible is par- 
ticularly strong, as shown by the measurements which are taken on the 
side of the mandible at the base where the feather S s join the horny sheath. 
: The mi: fies are aii ehey in ger than the femles’ The Gisapnemene of the Japan- 
ese form given by Sharpe (loc, cit.) are therefore misleading. 
