768 REMARKS ON JAPANESE gUAILS STEJNEGER. 



{{)) U. S. Nat. Mils., No. 11412(5;^ ; 40 miles fiom Seoul, Korea; 

 Noveiubei- 11, 1883; P. L. Jouy coll. Like foregoing-, with pure Avliite 

 throat, but simicircular lines scarcely indicated; middle throat feath- 

 ers short and rounded, lateral ones elongated and pointed, but even less 

 marked than in the foregoing; a number of these feathers, however, 

 still in their sheaths. 



The above six specimens (4-0) are unquestionably males, but I would 

 not like to say anything concerning their age. Thus lean not bring 

 myself to believe that 7, with its widely and distinctly black throat, is 

 a very young bird, iu spite of the fact that the feathers are more pointed 

 and longer than in any of the others. 



(10) U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 109410; 9; Shimosa, Hondo; December 

 22, 1885. General coloration like 8 and 9, but throat suffused with buff 

 and chest with numerous rows (at least five) of black spots; middle 

 throat feathers rounded, lateral ones pointed, elongated. 



(11) U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 95981; 9 ; Yubuts, Yezo; September 13, 

 1882 ; Blakiston coll. Very pale and very little rnst color on back ; 

 throat white, washed with buff; chest thickly spotted with black; 

 flanks also heavily marked with black ; lateral throat feathers pointed, 

 middle ones less so; feathers appear considerably worn. 



(12) In this enumeration of our Japanese and Korean specimens I 

 have omitted No. 15849, collected during the Perry exi^edition by W. 

 Heine, because it is unsexed and with no definite locality, besides being 

 now somewhat soiled and faded. It seems to be most like No. 4 of this 

 enumeration. 



Our European series available at the present writing is verj^ poor, 

 but I wish to call attention to one specimen. 



(13) U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 100345; S ; Koncza, Transsilvania, Hun- 

 gary; August 28, 1883; J. von Csato coll. Throat coloration almost 

 identical with liingers Nagasaki specimen (7), except that the lateral 

 feathers are not marked with cinnamon-rufVms. The lateral throat 

 feathers are perceptibly lengthened and pointed, fully as much as the 

 Korean example (9). 



In the above scries there are hardly two s])eciniens in which the 

 throat feathers are of exactly the same size and shai)e. Mr. Ogilvie- 

 Grant will probably maintain that this is exactly what we would expect 

 in the hybrids. On the other hand, I would call attention to the fact that 

 an intermediate shape is not at all coincident witii an intermediate 

 coloration or pattern. Specimen 7 is in this resi)ect very instructive, 

 as it unites the extreme elongation of the feathers of G. Japonira with 

 the extreme blackness of the throat of (\ i-otuniix. Were we to accept 

 the theory of hybridism, there would only be one pure-bred s])ecimen 

 (1) in the whole lot. This one is a typical C. japonica, and were we 

 to identify our specimens by means of the key all, except No. 3, must 

 be called ('. japonica. The fact that a European specimen (13) also 

 shows elongated pointed lateral throat feathers throws considerable 

 doubt upon the value of this character as being diagnostic. 



