3 BTRDS OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE. 



placed at the disposal o£ Pallas ; others were sent to him by his 

 friend Captain Billings^ and a few by Dr. Merk. 



Temminck. Nouveau Recueil de Planches Coloriees d'Oiseaux. 

 1837-1836, 

 The discoveries of Dr. Siebold during his stay in Japan were of 

 so much importance that many of the birds sent by him to Leyden 

 were figured by Temminck in the ' Planches Coloriees ' from time to 

 time. No fewer than 35 species were described and most of them 

 figured in this publication from 1827 to 1836. 



KiTTLiTz. Ueber die Vogel des Inselgruppe von Boninsima.— 

 Memoires presentes h I'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de 

 St. Petersbourg par divers savans. 1830, pp. 331-248. 



This short but imperfect, though important, paper is a record of 

 the birds obtained by Kittlitz during a fortnight's visit from the 

 1st to the 14th of May, 1828, to the three larger islands of the 

 Bonin group. Three new species of birds are described : — 



Hapalopteron familiare (placed by Kittlitz in the genus Ja-os). 



Cettia diphone (placed by Kittlitz in the genus Sylvia) . 



Geocichla ferrestris (placed by Kittlitz in the genus Turdus) . 



Kittlitz. Kupfertafeln zur Naturgeschichte der Vogel. 1833. 



In this little volume some of the birds found by P. H. von Kittlitz 

 on the Bonin Islands are figured : — Columba ianthina, Columba ver- 

 sicolor, Fringilla papa (Chaunoprocta ferreirostris) , Galgulus amaurotis 

 (Hypsipetes squamiceps), and Ardea caledonica {Nycticorax crassi- 

 rostris) . 



Temminck. Manuel d'Ornithologie. Second edition. Vol. iii., 1835 ; 

 Vol. iv., 1840. 



In these two volumes, which form a Supplement to the first and 

 second volumes of Temminck's important work on European birds, 

 many references to Japan are added to the geographical distribution 

 of the various species which range across the Palsearctic Region. It 

 might have been a very valuable addition to the knowledge of 

 Japanese Ornithology, but unfortunately he mentions so many birds 

 as occurring in Japan that have never been found there by any 

 recent collector that very little importance can be attached to these 

 statements. For example, he says of Strix flammea (Man. d'Orn. 



