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URIA BRUENNICHI (Ibis, 1878, p. 211). 



The skin sent is correctly identified. There cannot be any 

 reasonable doubt that the Cepphus arra of Pallas is this species. 

 The description is very good ; and I cannot understand why 

 Dresser (B. of Eur. viii. p. 578) refuses to admit it. 



PODICEPS MINUTUS (Ibis, 1878, p. 211). 



I cannot detect any difference between an example from 

 Japan (No. 1966) and our bird, so that the name P. philip- 

 pensis will probably have to sink into a synonym of P. 

 minutus. 



PODICEPS NIGRICOLLIS (Ibis, 1878, p. 211). 



A skin sent (No. 1724) represents Messrs. Blakiston and 

 Pryer's No. 13, P. auritus, Lath. This species is the Co- 

 lymbus auritus of Brisson, but not of Linnaeus. 



PODICEPS CORNUTUS (Ibis, 1878, p. 211, et 1879, p. 21). 



A skin sent (No. 2595) is correctly identified. This is the 

 Colymbus auritus of Linnaeus ; but as this name has been so 

 often misapplied, it is better to ignore it in favour of Gmelin's 

 name. 



PODICEPS CRISTATUS (Ibis, 1878, p. 211). 



A skin sent (No. 1431) is correctly identified. 



ANSER BRACHYRHYNCHUS (Ibis, 1878, p. 212). 



The sole evidence upon which the Pink-footed Goose has 

 been admitted into the Japanese fauna is Swinhoe's state- 

 ment in ' The Ibis ' (1875, p. 456) that a specimen was sent 

 him from Hakodadi. This, Mr. Blakiston says, is an error ; 

 and no skin answering the description is in the Swinhoe 

 collection. A skin sent (No. 2084) proves to be that of a 

 male of the year of Anser erythropus. Anser brachyrhynchus 

 has never been recorded from Siberia or China, and it must 

 be now erased from the Japanese list. 



BERNICLA HUTCHINSI (Ibis, 1878, p. 212). 



A skin sent (No. 2621) proves to be of this species, and not 

 of B. leucoparia. The former has sixteen tail-feathers, with the 

 wing 16 inches long, whilst the latter is said to have eighteen 



