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olive green ; rump bright gamboge yellow ; upper tail coverts and tail black ; 

 wings dark hair brown, the lesser coverts dull, dark plumbeous ; a large white 

 wing patch, formed by the white color of the middle and most of the greater 

 coverts ; one or two (on each side) of the longer tertials narrowly edged with 

 whitish for the basal half of the outer web ; throat, jugulum, and breast bright 

 gamboge yellow, becoming yellowish white on belly and under tail coverts ; 

 sides and flanks washed with olive green ; lining of wing and narrow inner 

 margin of wing feathers, below, white. 



Measurements. — Type ,^, wing 67 ; tail 45 ; tarsus 15.8; exposed culmen 

 10.2; distance from tip of longest secondary to tip of longest primary about 15. 



Bemarks.—ln Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus., 1887, Vol. X, pp. 406-407. Stejneger 

 pointed out the structural differences between the Liu Kiu species and Z. 

 narcissina ; he, however, had but one young example of the island species, and 

 on this account refrained from giving it a name. The one skin obtained by 

 Zensaku bears out all the structural characters, and besides shows marked color 

 differences from either Z. narcissina or Z. zanthopygia. 



The type of Z. owstoni, a male, appears to be in full breeding plumage, and 

 if so, the dark olive green color of the back is unlike any other species, and 

 would alone distinguish the Liu Kiu form. 



Cisticola brunniceps (Temm. & Schl.). 



Two adults from Ishigaki, ^ taken March 7, 9 June 1. The fantail warbler 

 is said to be the most abundant bird in the islands. [It builds its nest in 

 grass a foot or two above the ground. Eggs, as many as seven in a clutch, were 

 taken from March 25 to June 30.] 



Cettia cantillans (Temm. & Schl.). 



One adult 9 fro™ Ishigaki, March 5. [Six specimens were taken on Ishigaki 

 between March 5 and April 7.] 



Cettia cantans (Temm. & Schl.). 



Two specimens from Ishigaki, ^ taken March 25, 9 April 6. [Specimens 

 were secured between February 18 and April 6.] 



Hirundo rustica gutturalis (Scop.). 



Two adults from Ishigaki, $ April 4, 9 April 3, 1899. [Four birds in all 

 were obtained on the island between April 2 and April 5.] 



Pericrocotus tegimae Ste.tn. 



A pair of adults from Ishigaki, the 9 taken June 20, the $ June 10. These 

 specimens agree exactly with Stejneger's type. 



