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Mr. N. Kurocla on the Birds of 



[Ibis, 



*67. Caprimulgus indicus jotaka (Teinm. & SchL). 

 There is an example of this Nightjar in the Tsushima 

 Middle School. 



*&'S. Chsetura caudacuta caudacuta (Latham). 



One specimen is preserved in the same school in Tsushima. 



-\^ &'d. Yungipicus kizuki kotataki, subsji. nov. 



Eight specimens were obtained by Mr. Teraoka and others 

 on Tsushima, Oct. 6-19. One female presented by Mr. 

 Kokubu, was collected at Kechi, Tsushima, early in the 

 summer of 1920. riie measurements of all Tsushima speci- 

 mens are as follows : — 



Messrs. Namiye and Tsuchida obtained six examples of 

 the Pygmy Woodpecker from several localities on Tsushima, 

 between Feb. 19 and March 19, 1891 (Ijima, p. 21). They 

 are preserved now in the Zoological Musuem, Tokyo Imperial 

 University. They measured as follows : — 



Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



Sex, mm. mm. mm, 



c? ad 82 50 14 



2 ad 84 51 15 



$ ad 85-5 52 14 



$ ad 86 52 15 



2 ad 85 51 15 



5 ad 86 50 15-5 



I have carefully compared the above 15 examples with 

 a series of Y. h. seebohmi from Hokkaido and Sakhalin, 

 of Y. k. kizuki from southern Hondo and Kiusiu, and of 

 Y. k. Hiyrescens from Liu-kiu Islands, and have come to the 



