622 BIRDS FROM TOKYO, JAPAN^STE.JNEGER. 



tarsis brevioribus forsan di versa." I feel, cousequently, coulident that 

 there can be but very little, if any, difference between the type of 0. 

 marl-hfimi and the Japanese so-called (). melania. 



It maybe interestius" to remark that tliis species (or possibly O.fuli- 

 (/uiosa) has been recorded from Japanese waters long' ago, as v. Kittlitz 

 (Denkw., n, p. 101) obtained, in lat. 37° N., hmg. 211io w., (Jr., a speci- 

 men of a bird whicli he describes as a Thalassulroma, rather large 

 and '^uniformly blackish brown." 



Oceanodroma monorhis (Swiiili.). 



Althongii not strictly an addition to the Japanese avifauna, as I 

 have already included the species in my list of the birds of the Liu Kin 

 Islands (Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus., x, 1887, p. 414) upon the authority of 

 Collingwood (P. Z. S., 1871, p. 422), the present specimen is highly 

 interesting as being the first one obtained in Japan i)roper. It was col- 

 lected by Mr. N. Ota in the province of Mutsu, and is now No. 1508 of 

 the Science College Museum. The specimen was taken to England by 

 Canon Tristram, who identified it as above. It agrees very well with 

 Swinhoe's original description {Ibis, 18G7, p. 380), and I have no doubt 

 as to the correctness of the identification, although I can not verify the 

 character which to Swiidioe suggested the specific name, and which he 

 describes in tlie following words: "NovStril with only one hole api»arent 

 at the end of the tube." In the present specimen the septum is cer- 

 tainly present and visible, though jjerhaps not reaching as far forward 

 as in the other species. 



Ciconia nigra (Liu.)- 



In my review of the Japanese Herodii (Proc. U. S. ISTat. Mus., 1887, 

 p. 285) I gave tlu^ characters and the synonymy of the i)resent species 

 'Mn order to facilitate the identification if any straggler should visit 

 Japanese territ-ory." The straggler has now done so, and the brackets 

 which include<l the Jianu' of the species in my synoi)sis may be re- 

 moved, as I have before me, through Dr. Ijima's kindness, an immature 

 female Black Stork, shot by Messrs. Ise Jogoro and Ohashi (and pre- 

 sented to the Science (Vdlege Museum by the former) on January 10, 

 1892, at Sunamura, at the mouth of Nakagawa, near Tokyo, wheie the 

 bird had been observed among the rushes for about a week previously. 



Being a yonng bird, the feathers of head and neck are dark brown 

 with lighter margins and no metallic green reflections. 



(137*) Demiegretta ringeri Steju. 



The collection contains two specimens, one (No. 426) from Sakura, 

 Shimosa, March 14, 1884, the first record from Hondo, but not in full 

 l)lumage and consequently unavailable for comparison; the other from 

 Tsnshinni, are of the specimens n])on which Dr. IJiina based his remarks 

 (Journ. Sc. Coll. Ini]). Univ. Japan, v, 1891, p. 122) to the effect tlmt 



