CALLIOPE 65 



with dark centres ; bill and legs brown. Culmen 0'68, wing 2'9, tail i'9, 

 tarsus 1'02 inch. The female is less brilliant in colour, and the black 

 portions of the plumage are replaced by creamy white margined with slate- 

 grey ; centre of abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; forehead russet 

 brown. 



Originally described from cage birds obtained in Japan, this 

 Redbreast is supposed to have been brought thither from Corea 

 but no collectors have obtained it there. It has, however, been 

 obtained on Yaye-yama island in the southern group of the 

 Loo-choo group, where it is probably indigenous. Nothing is 

 as yet known of its general habits or nidincation, and I have 

 not been able to examine a specimen. 



98. JAPANESE REDBREAST. 

 ERITHACUS AKAHIGE. 



Erithacus akahige (Temm.) PI. Col. No. 571 (1824) ; (Temm. and 

 Schlegel), Faun. Jap. Aves. p. 55, pi. xxi. B ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br 

 Mus. v. p. 299 ; David and Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 230. 



Komadori, Jap. 



( ad. (Japan). Upper parts russet brown ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail orange chestnut ; forehead, throat, breast and sides of the head and 

 neck orange chestnut ; lower breast and under parts slate-grey, brownish 

 on the flanks and nearly Avhite on the centre of the abdomen ; wings, 

 axiliaries, and under tail-coverts brown, the quills externally margined 

 with russet. Culmen 0*6, wing 3'0, tail 2'1, tarsus 1'15 inch. The 

 female has the chestnut paler and duller, and the slate-grey is replaced by 

 brown. 



Hob. Japan and north-eastern China. It breeds in the 

 mountains at considerable altitudes, and winters on the plains. 

 It is said not to have occurred in Yesso in a wild state, but is 

 common in southern Japan and breeds on the Seven Islands. 



I do not find any record of its breeding habits, nor description 

 of its nest or eggs. 



CALLIOPE, Gould, 1837. 



99. SIBERIAN RUBY-THROAT. 



CALLIOPE CAMTSCHATKENSIS. 



Call-Cope ccnntschathensis, (Gmel.) Syst. Nat. i. p. 817 (1788) ; Dresser, 

 B. of E. ii. p. 341, pi. 52 ; Gould, B. of E. pi. 114 ; id. B. of Asia, 

 iv. pi. 38 ; Taczanowski, J. f. O. 1873, Taf. i. (egg) ; Erithacus 

 calliope, (Pall.) ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 305 ; Tacz. F. 0. 

 Sib. 0. p. 335 ; Gates, F. Brit. Ind. Birds, ii. p. 102. 



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