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coverts dull olive yellow ; wings grayish hair brown, scapulars and lesser 

 coverts dull grayish olive, tips of greater coverts yellowish, forming a wing 

 bar ; primaries and secondaries edged with greenish gray ; tail grayish hair 

 brown edged with greenish gray, outer rectrices barely tipped with whitish. 



Measurements. — Adult <J type, wing 62 ; tail 55.5 ; tarsus 18.2 ; exposed 

 culmen 11. Adult $, topotype, No. 37.393, wing 60; tail 50; tarsus 18; 

 exposed culmen 10.5. 



Corvus macrorhynchus levaillantii (Lesson). 



Four specimens, all from Ishigaki, adult ^ March 25, adult 9 ^larch 28, and 

 two young from the nest June 10. [Eggs, four in a clutch, were taken April 11 

 to June 10.] 



Sturnia pyrrhogenys (Temm. & Schl.). 

 One male from Ishigaki, June 1, 1899. 



Zosterops loochooensis (Tkistkam). 



Two specimens from Ishigaki, adult ^ March 13, adult 9 April 6. [Abun- 

 dant on Ishigaki and Kuroshima. Skins were taken from February 18 to 

 June 7, and eggs, four in a clutch, April 2 to June 25.] 



A careful comparison of these two specimens with numerous examples of 

 Z. simplex and Z. japonica proves the Liu Kiu form to be a distinct island 

 race, in spite of the doubts cast upon it in the latest review of tbe group. i 

 But as no adequate description of it appears to have been published, I append 

 the following : — 



Characters. — Nearest to Z. simplex oi China, but bill heavier, wing longer ; 

 of a brighter green color abov^e, and brighter yellow color below; the species 

 differs from Z. japonica in slightly shorter wing and in the color of the sides 

 and flanks, which lack the strong vinous brown of this region in the Japanese 

 species, and also in the primaries, being very short and narrow at tips (a char- 

 acter presented by many of the species of birds peculiar to the Liu Kiu Islands) ; 

 win" formula, 1st primary about equal to 6th, shorter than 5th, 2nd equal to 

 4th, 3rd longest. 



Color. — Whole upper parts including margins of wing and tail feathers 

 yellowish oil green, frontal region slightly yellower ; wings and tail black 

 (except for the green margins of the feathers) ; orbital ring silky white ; a 

 dusky spot below and in front of eye ; chin and throat lemon yellow ; breast 

 and belly soiled whitish, faintly washed with yellowish along median line 

 and with pale ecru drab on sides and flanks ; thighs yellowish white in front, 

 dusky oil green behind ; under tail coverts lemon yellow ; bend of wing lemon 

 yellow ; alula black ; lining of wing and axillas pale yellow ; narrow inner 

 margins to wing feathers below whitish. 



1 Finsch, 0. Zosteropidae. Das Tierreich, 1901, 15, p. 20. 



