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The first name we encounter is Cassin's Lusciniopsis japoniva (Pr. 

 Phil. Acad., 1858, p. 193). Tlirongh the courtesy of Mr. Witnier Stone 

 the type (Phil. Acad,, No. 30008), from Hakodate, is now before me. 

 It is a young' bird and in every detail a counterpart of IT. S. Nat. Mus., 

 No. 92048, also from Hakodate, and collected by Capt. Blakiston. 

 Both are refeiable to the species from Japan which we are used to call 

 L. ochotcnsis, and consequently, not to the present bird. 



The next bird in order is Syvinhoe's LocusteUa suhcerthiola (Ibis, 1874, 

 p. 154), based upon another specimen from Hakodate collected Sep- 

 tember 3, 1801, by Blakiston (Blak., No. 734), and by him referred to 

 " Galamolierpe cantiUans.'''' The type is probably not now in existence, 

 as it is neither in the Swinhoe collection, nor in the U. S. National 

 Museum (see Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp., p. 73), but Blakiston's reference 

 to the similarity of the bird to the plate in Fauna Japonica of ISaU- 

 caria cantillanH and to Acrocephalus orieutalis makes it certain that it 

 was a L. ochotensis and not the bird we are now considering. 



Arundinax hlaliistoni was described two years later by Swinhoe from 

 a young specimen collected by Blakiston at Hakodate. The type is in 

 Seebohm's possession, who declares it to be an L. ochotensis in first 

 plumage. Moreover, Capt. Blakiston retained in his own collection 

 a duplicate specimen (fairly entitled to be regarded as a co type) 

 obtained on the same date and at the same place (Hakodate Light 

 Ship, Oct. 3, 1875), which is now before me (U. S. Nat. Mus , No. 90248, 

 Blak., No. 1880), and is the same young bird with which I have com- 

 pared the new species above. 



There is consequently no other alternative but to bestow a new name 

 on the Shimosa bird, and to reconrmend collectors to keep a sharp 

 lookout for the adult bird. 



To facilitate identification I append the following detailed descrip- 

 tion of Locusfella hondoensis. 



Coloration. — Entire upper surface uniform olive (Kidgwiiy, Nom. Col., 

 pi. Ill, fig. 9), underside jiale Naples yellow washed with olive on 

 sides and becoming clay-colored on under tail-coverts ; chest, spotted 

 with dusky ; a dull olive-buff superciliary stripe ; ear coverts olive, 

 with pale shaft-streaks; lining of wing whitish. Bill, brown above and 

 on tip of lower mandible; base of latter and terminus of upper pale. 



Dimennions — Millimetres. 



Wing... 68 



Tail-feathers 57 



Exposed culnien 15 



Cnlmeu to extreme base 18. 5 



Tarsus 24 



Middle toe with claw 21 



Middle of bill at middle of nostrils 4 



Graduaticm of tail 18 



Wing formula: — First primary 2""" longer than i)rimary coverts; 

 second primary equals fifth; third longest, longer than fourth. 



