r»16 HTHDS FROM TOKYO, JAI'AN STEJNEOER. 



rant, however, of the h)c'ality whence came tlie loinier specimen, but 

 as the present specimen was collected in the Province of Owari the 

 species must l)e admitted to the fauna. No reference to the White 

 Tern is found in Secbohm's Birds of the Japanese Empire. 



In a letter, dated February 13, 1893, Dr. Ijima informs me that he has 

 since obtained another specimen, but he does not j>ive any locality. It 

 was found by Mr. Ota among a lot of skins brought to Yokohama from 

 various places in Japan for export for millinery purposes. It is now 

 No. 2337 of the Science College Museum and measures, according to Dr. 

 Ijima, as follows: Bill, 33"""; wing, 221"'"'; tail, 1)7"'"' ; middle toe, with 

 claw, 30""". 



C75J) Stercorarius pomarinus (Tciiim.). 



A young specimen (No. 1077), from the Province of Owari, is the 

 third specinum from Japan and therefore well deserving of being re- 

 corded. It is a young bird. 



(101) Liniosa ]apponica baueri (Nanm.). 



Dr. Ijima justly calls attention to the great dimensions of the speci- 

 men sent (No. 1144: Tokyo), The wing is only slightly in excess of 

 the ordinary length in this species, being 230""", but the exposed cul- 

 men is 120""", and the tarsus 62"'"'. He writes that he has had another 

 specimen "of this form." Eeferring to the measurements given by me 

 in my ''•Kesults of Ornithological Explorations in Kamchatka," etc. 

 (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 29, p. 123) it will be observed that all the 

 sexed specimens are males. The ditlerence in sex may account for the 

 dilierence in size. 



Tryngites subruficoUis (Yioill.). 



Specimen No. 2164, collected by Mr. Ota in the Province of Owari, 

 adds not only a species, but a genus to the Japanese avifauna. The 

 butl-breasted sandpiper is easily recognized by the peculiar pattern of 

 the wing-feathers, best seen from the underside; the lining and axillars 

 are pure white, but the under primary-coverts, as well as the inner 

 webs of the remiges are beautifully marked with dusky marblings 

 on a whitish ground. 



The i)resent species is strictly American in its distribution, though 

 specimens have occasionally straggled to Europe, particularly England. 

 On the other hand, Mr. E. W. Nelson (Cruise Corwin, 1881, p. 90) 

 states that he ibund it quite common in the vicinity of Cape Wan- 

 karem, on the Arctic seacoast of eastern Siberia, early in August, 1881. 

 It is not clear, however, that he actually collected specimens, at least 

 there is no record corroborating the obser\'ation, that I know of. If 

 such a colony occurs on the Siberian coast it is safe to say that the 

 members composing it retrace their stei)s to America during the migra- 

 tions, and the .Ia|)anese specimen can not be regarded otherwise than 

 as an accidental straggler. 



