102 Mr. H. Seebohm on the 



Chaunoproctus ferreirostris. 



The Bonin Grosbeak was discovered in 1827 on one of the 

 Bonin Islands, during the voyage of the ' Blossom/ and was 

 originally described without any record of the locality whence 

 it was procured (Vigors, Zool. Journ. 1828, p. 354) ; the 

 types are now in the British Museum. It was rediscovered a 

 year later, and redescribed as Fringilla papa (Kittlitz, Mem. 

 presentes a. FAcad. Imp. des Sciences de St. Petersb. par 

 divers Savans, 1830, p. 239). It is figured in Bonaparte and 

 SchlegeFs ' Loxiens/ pis. 37, 38 (p. 32), as Chaunoproctus 

 papa. 



Mr. Hoist did not succeed in obtaining this curious 

 species, but he heard that it was to be found on the Baily 

 Islands. 



HlRUNDO RUSTICA GUTTURALIS. 



An example of the Eastern race of the Common Barn 

 Swallow is dated the 3rd of May from Peel Island, and is 

 described as one out of two, which were seen for one day 

 only on their spring migration. This bird is a common 

 summer visitor to Japan. 



BUTEO VULGARIS PLUMIPES. 



Mr. Hoist has sent four examples of the Eastern race of 

 the Common Buzzard from Peel Island, not far from the 

 centre of the Bonin group. Two of these examples are 

 young, with barred tail-feathers, and the other two do not 

 appear to be very old, as there are traces of bars on several 

 of the tail-feathers. In all the examples the tarsi are 

 feathered for more than half their length. 



Carpophaga ianthina. 



The Japanese Fruit Pigeon was procured by Kittlitz on 

 the Bonin Islands in 1828. One of his examples is in the 

 Senckenberg Museum in Frankfort, and a second is in the 

 Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Peters- 

 burg. The latter has been made the type of a new species, 

 Ianthoznas nit ens (Stejneger, Proc. United States Nat. Mus. 

 1887, p. 421), on the ground that the head is brown instead 

 of slate-grey ; but as this is not the case with the Frankfort 



