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Ota recently obtaiued a specimen from Owari. It is also mentioned in 

 Japanese ornitliological manuscripts, but seems never to come as far 

 north as Tokyo. The Japanese name of this bird is YairochOy meaning 

 eight-colored bird, and its local name in Satsuma is Aladanna (aka= 

 red; danua=cloth worn about the lower parts of the botly)." 



(224) Accentor erythropygius Hwiuh. 



A male in nestling- plumage collected by Kikuchi at ISTorikura, 

 August, 1888 (No. 889). It is very much like the adult bird, wing and 

 tail being identical, but the top of head is washed with ochraceous and 

 streaked with blackish, and rump and under side, including flanks, 

 more or less tawny-ochraceous streaked with dusky; the pattern on 

 the throat is not so well defined. 



(223) Prunella rubida (Ternm. and Schl.). 



No. 891, a nestling, collected by Kikuchi at Norikura-yama, Province 

 of Shinano, August 19, 1888. Wing and tail as in adults; upper sur- 

 face likewise, though with a tawny tinge instead of the vinaceous of 

 the adults; under side pale tawny ochraceous fading to whitish on 

 belly and indistinctly streaked with dusky. 



A careful comparison of three specimens from Hondo with four from 

 Yezo proves them to be absolutely identical. There does not seem to 

 be the slightest foundation for the alleged subspecies P.fervida. 



(261) Turdus naumanni Temm. 



Two specimens with one of T. eunomus were sent by Dr. Ijima under 

 the above name to illustrate a supposed combination of the characters 

 of the two species. They are readily referred to their respective species, 

 however, but the key by which the two species were supijosed always 

 to be distinguishable requires some emendation, as both specimens of 

 T. naumanni show considerable dusky in the coloration of the flanks. 

 The differences in the color of the outer tail feathers, under tail-coverts, 

 under wing-coverts and ramp seem to be always constant. Taking 

 Eobert Eidgway's "Nomenclature of Colors" as a standard, we find 

 that the under wing-coverts and outer tail-feathers in T. naumanni are 

 of a color somewhat intermediate between the cinnamon (PL iii, Fig. 

 20) and tawny (PI. V,Fig. 1), while the under wing-coverts in T. eunomus 

 are intermediate between cinnamon rufous and vinaceous-cinnamon 

 (PL IV, Figs. IG and 15), or for all practical purposes the former, and 

 the tail practically uniform brownish slate; the latter species, in addi 

 tion, has a strong wash of rufous chestnut on the rump. Besides, in 

 T. eunomus the central portion of the longest under tail-coverts always 

 has some dusky added to the brown, while in T. naumanni it is unmixed, 

 of the same color as the under wing-coverts. 



The superficial resemblance between the three birds sent is undoubt- 

 edly due to their being somewhat youngish birds. 



