16 BIRDS OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE. 



Islands, and sent a small collectron of birds obtained at Naha, the 

 capital of Okinawa-sima, the largest island of the central group. 

 lyngipicus kizuki nigrescens is described as a small dark race of 

 Temminck's Pigmy Woodpecker. Picus noguchii is described as a 

 new specieSj possibly allied to the genus Blythipicus. Other species 

 new to the Japanese fauna are 



Sterna melanauchen. 

 „ dougalli. 



Dendrocygna javanica, 



Stejneger. Review of Japanese Birds. — IV. Synopsis of the Genus 

 Turdus. Proc. United States Nat. Mus. 1887, pp. 4-5. 



In this paper a supposed new species of Thrush is described from 

 the main island of Japan under the name of Turdus jouyi. 



Stejneger. Notes on the Northern Palsearctic Bullfinches. Proc. 

 United States Nat. Mus. 1887, pp. 103-110. 

 In this paper various points relating to the genus Pyrrhula are 

 discussed, amongst others the complete intergradation of Pyrrhula 

 orientalis and Pyrrhula rosacea. 



Stejneger. Zeitsehr. gesammte Ornith. 1887, pp. 166-176. — A 

 List of the Birds hitherto reported as occurring in the Liu-kiu 

 Islands, Japan. 

 This paper combines the information respecting the birds of the 



Loo-Choo Islands contained in the writer's article on that subject 



with that furnished by Mr. Pryer, to which are added the species 



previously recorded from this locality. 



Stejneger. Review of Japanese Birds. — V. Ibises, Storks, and 

 Herons. Proc. United States Nat. Mus. 1887, pp. 271-319. 

 This paper contains much interesting matter ; the claim of Pla- 

 talea minor to be regarded as a good species is substantiated. A 

 supposed new species of Reef-Heron is described under the name of 

 Bemiegretta ringeri from the island of Tsu-sima. 



Stejneger. On the systematic name of the Kamtschatkan and 

 Japanese Carrion-Crow. Proc. United States Nat. Mus. 1887, 

 pp. 320-331. 

 In this paper the writer comes to the conclusion that the Japanese 



Crow ought to bear the name of Corvus corone orientalis. 



