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same locality. Tt^uruyama in Idzuslii, Ilyogo prefecture; is famous as a 

 place where it breeds. As a summer resident the black-tailed gull 

 appears in flocks and breeds on small islands along the coasts of the 

 Japan Sea as well as on the Pacific side, its famous breeding grounds 

 being Kabu-shima in Aoniori prefecture and Fumi-shima in Shimane 

 prefecture. This bird migrates in winter southwards to Formosa, or 

 Amoy in China. There are two kinds of swans which come over to 

 Japan, viz. the wooper swan (O. cygnus) and the eastern Bewick's swan 

 {G. bewicku minor). They are migrants from Siberia where they breed 

 in May, spending winter on our coasts. Kominato in Aomori prefecture 

 furnishes them with a very favourable situation where they fly over 

 the sea. The long-tailed fowl is a breed of the domestic fowl, its 

 peculiarity lying in the possession of very long tail feathers, which 

 sometime reach from 3 m. to more than 4.5 m. This remarkable fowl 

 is not a native of Japan. It is considered that this form originated 

 in Korea and was improved in Tosa after having been introduced there. 

 Notwithstanding its introduction from Korea, the Chinese magpie, 

 which is distributed over Korea, Manchuria, China, Formosa, Hainan, 

 and Upper Burma, is now found to occur in a wild state only in some 

 parts of northern Kyushu. Finally, we come to the Japanese shear- 

 water, which, although occasionally migrating southwards to Australia, 

 abounds and breeds around this country. Kammuri-shima in Kyoto 

 prefecture is known as a famous breeding ground. 



Eeptiles to be met with are about 13 species, most of them being 

 related to those of Korea and chiefly occupying the southern region. 

 The endemic species are AcJwUnus spinalis, Dinodon orientale, Amyda 

 japonica, etc. 



At present we are acquainted with about 13 species of frogs and 

 toads, which, with the exception of an Oriental type, seem to be of a 

 Palaearctic character. The species and varieties which are not found 

 elsewhere are as follows : Bufo vidgaris japonicus, B. vidg. formosus, 

 Bana japonico,, B. temporaria martensi, B. limnocliaris, Bhacophorus 

 scldegdii, Polypedates hvergerii, etc. Of these the first, fourth and 

 fifth three forms occux^y situations in the southern district, while the 

 second abounds in the northern. 



Coming to the urodele, we find various species of it, the 

 majority of them being considered as peculiar and finding their homes 

 in the southern district. Such species are represented by Hynohiiis 

 nehidosus, H. stejnegeri, H. vondenhurgi, etc. One of the most note- 



