94 Mr. H. Seebohm on the 



Mr, Hoist describes the irides as ligbt brown^ the bill as 

 dark grey on the upper and light blue on the lower mandible, 

 tinged with yellow towards the base, in both cases paler at 

 the edges, and the legs and feet as greyish flesh-colour. 



118. Emberiza elegans. 



A male was shot on the 18th of March. 



Mr. Hoist describes the irides as brown, the bill as dusky 

 grey shading into greyish yellow tow^ards the base of the 

 under mandible, and the feet as reddish yellow. 



121. Emberiza VARIABILIS. 



A female was shot on the 7th of January. 



Mr. Hoist describes the irides as brown, the bill as greyish 

 black, shading into light grey on the ridge between the nos- 

 trils, at the angle of the gape, on the edges of both man- 

 dibles, and towards the base of the under mandible, and the 

 legs and feet as pale greyish biown. 



Pitta nympha. 



Specimens of this species are said to have been obtained at 

 Tsu-sima by Mr. Jouy (Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, iv. 

 p. xvii). It is not known that any species of Pitta has 

 occurred in Japan, but Mr. Sclater regards the Tsu-sima 

 birds as identical with those found on Formosa (Sclater, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 425) . 



132. PiCUS RICHARDSI. 



Tristram's Woodpecker is the only species known to 

 be peculiar to Tsu-sima. The type (described by Canon 

 Tristram, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 386) is a female with a black 

 crown; but Dr. Isao Ijima, of the Science College of the 

 Imperial University at Tokyo, informs me that Mr. Namiye 

 has recently visited Tsu-sima, where he obtained three 

 examples of this species, one of them a male with brilliant 

 crown and malar stripe. 



This fine species has no very near ally in Japan, but is 

 represented in Corea by a closely allied species, Thriponax 

 kalinowskii, of which a male example has recently been pre- 



