580 PROF. GIGLIOLI AND COUNT T. SALVADORI ON [DeC. 6, 



1. Brief Notes on the Fauna of Corea and the adjoining 

 coast of Manchuria. By Henry H. GigliolIj C.M.Z.S., 

 and Thomas Salvadori, C.M.Z.S. 



[Eeceived August 16, 1887.] 

 (Plate LII.) 



The specimens which are the subject of the following " Notes " 

 form part of a large collection, principally of Vertebrates, made by 

 order of H.E.H. Prince Thomas of Savoy, Duke of Genoa, whilst 

 he was in command of the ' Vettor Pisani,' on a voyage round the 

 "World, 1878-81 ; the entire collection is now deposited in the 

 Royal Zoological Museum at Florence. 



Corea, or Cho-sen as the Japanese have it, is yet very much 

 a "terra incognita," and more especially so as regards its fauna. 

 The Italian corvette ' Vettor Pisani ' visited only three localities 

 on the eastern sea-board of Corea — Fusan to the south, from 

 the 1st to the 7th of Avigust, 1880 ; Port Lazareff in Broughton's 

 Bay, on August the 9th, staying three days ; and Gensan, between the 

 16th and the 18th of the same month. Fusan was again visited in 

 February 1881. 



Three very interesting localities on the adjoining coast of Man- 

 churia were also visited and collections made ; these localities were : — 

 Possiette Bay, called also Port Bruce, on the border between Corea 

 and Manchuria ; Vladivostok, slightly further to the north, near the 

 Albert peninsula ; and Olga Bay, still more northwards. At Olga 

 Bay the 'Vettor Pisani' remained from the 24th of August to the 

 22ud of September, 1879 ; at Vladivostok from the 23rd of Septem- 

 ber to the lltb of October following ; and at Possiette Bay between 

 the 12th and the 25th of October the same year. It was in this 

 locality that the most important zoological capture was made, viz. 

 that of two specimens of the scarcely known Cygnus davidi. The 

 collections made at the above-named localities consist of: — 1 

 Mammal; 96 Birds, belonging to 47 species ; 7 Reptiles, represent- 

 ing 3 species ; 2 Amphibia, 1 species ; and 7 Fishes, belonging to 

 4 species. 



A glance at the species in the five classes of Vertebrata shows with 

 undeniable evidence the very close affinity existing between the 

 Corean and the Japanese faunas, a coincidence which was fully to be 

 expected. Two years ago, Canon Tristram described a small col- 

 lection of birds made in Corea by Lieut. G. Gunn, R.N.' ; there 

 were eight specimens of eight well-known species, but, as our 

 learned friend observes, " as absolutely nothing is known of the 

 avifauna of Korea, I have thought it might not be without interest 

 to give a list of what Lieut. Gunn has procured." It is worth re- 

 marking that only one of the eight species in that list is represented 

 in the collection made by the ' Vettor Pisani,' and that is Larus 



^ H. B. Tristram, "On a small Collection of Birds from Korea," in ' Ibis ' 1885, 

 p. 194. 



