636 BIRDS FROM TOKYO, JAPAN STEJNEGER. 



Acanthopneuste boiealia (Bias.). 

 Acanthopneuste borealis xanthodryas (Swinli.)- 



All undated and iinsexed specimen from tlie province of Surujifa 

 (No. 2^)0) is ;ui nndoubted tI. &o)Ta//.s-. 



The other bird (No. 2038), collected by Dr. Ijima at Norikura, province 

 of Shinano, Hondo, July 27, 1891, is very young', and it is consequently 

 not possible at the i)resent state of our knowled;ne to say, Avith abso- 

 lute certainty, whether it is a A. xa)it}io(lri/((s without examining the 

 parent bird. The coloration is typically that of A. xanthodryas, and as 

 the first ])rimary is fully 15'"'" long I think Dr. Tjima quite correct in 

 referring it to the latter. 



(244) Acanthopneuste tenellipes (8wiuli.). 



Dr. Ijima has forwarded a specimen collected at Sapporo, Yezo, 

 October 4, 1800. It belongs to the Sapporo Museum (No. 820) and is 

 particularly interesting as the only autumnal- specimen so far obtained 

 in Japan. 



(180) Zosterops japonica Teinm. and Schl. 



Dr. Ijima sends the two Tsushima specimens (Nos. 1749, 1750) which 

 he discussed in his paper on the Tsushima birds (Journ. Coll. Sc. I. 

 Univ. Jap., V, 1891, p. 109). As he remarks, the bills of these birds 

 are somewhat larger than those from Hondo, but the difference is 

 trifling in itself and I have before me a third specimen from Tsushima 

 collected by Jouy (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 114046) which iu its measure- 

 ments is absolutely identical with those of Peterson's No. 77, from 

 Nagasaki, recorded by me in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1887, p. 487, both 

 birds being females. I can discover no difference in coloration and 

 wing-formula and must refer the Tsushima birds to true Z. japonica. 



This opens up the question of the status of Z. sfejnegeri Seeb. from 

 the Seven Islands. I have reexamined our specimen from Oshima, the 

 northern island of the group, but beyond the fact that the bill is 1 

 millimeter longer than the longest Tsushima bill, I can see no differ- 

 ence. The measurements presented by Seebohm of birds from the 

 southern islands of the group seem to average longer, and it may be 

 that the birds from those islands may be larger generally. It is evi- 

 dent, however, that the Oshima bird as well as various larger speci- 

 mens from Hondo, Kin Sin, and Tsushima, are intermediate, and that 

 the bird in question is only entitled to a trinominal appellation, as 

 Zoaierops japonica stcjnepen. 



Seebohin, in his paper on the birds of Tsushima (Ibis, 1892, p. 90), 

 says that ''no s])ecies of this genus has been recorded from Corea," but 

 he has evidently overlooked my reference in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 1887, p. 480. 



(2051) Laniiis magnirostris Lesa. 



A young specimen of this rare Japanese bird, collected at Nikko, 

 Hondo, (No. 1057) is the fourth specimen obtained in Japanese territory. 



