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he identified it with the Japanese species, but doubting Temminck's 

 assertion that it was a Turdus, he decided that it must be a Roller, 

 and called it Galgulus amaurotis. Since that date the two species 

 remained confused together until 1884^ when the Bonin-Island Bulbul 

 reappeared in ornithological literature under the name of Hypsipetes 

 squamiceps (Meyer, Zeitschrift ges. Orn. i. p. 211). 



The Loo-Choo form appears completely to intergrade with the 

 typical form, from which it may be distinguished as Hypsipetes squa- 

 miceps pryeri. It was originally described from an example col- 

 lected by Mr. Namiye on Okinawa-Shima, the largest of the middle 

 group of the Loo-Choo Islands, under the name oi Hypsipetes pryeri 

 (Stejneger, Proc. United States Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 642) . Pryer 

 described its attempts at song as an almost melodious connected 

 whistle, whilst those of its Japanese ally are said to be most 

 discordant (Stejneger, Zeitschrift ges. Orn. 1887, p. 173). 



There are two examples of the typical form from the Bonin Islands 

 in the Pryer collection, and I have lately received twelve more from 

 the same locality collected by Mr. Hoist (Seebohm, Ibis, 1890, p. 98) . 

 There are seven examples in the Pryer collection of the race which 

 inhabits the Loo-Choo Islands. 



31. HAPALOPTERON PAMILIARE. 



(BONIN WHITE-EYED WARBLER.) 



1x0$ familiaris, Kittlitz, MiSm. pres. a I'Acad. Imp. des Sciences de St. Pgters- 

 bourg, par divers savans, 1830, p. 235. 



The Bonin White-eyed Warbler has a round wing with large first 

 primary. Upper parts oHve, underparts yellow, a ring of white 

 feathers round the eye; lores yellow; forehead and supercihary 

 stripe black ; ear-coverts black on anterior half, yellow on posterior 

 half. 



Figures : Kittlitz, Mem. pres. ^ I'Acad. Imp. des Sciences de St. 

 Petersb. par divers savans, 1830, pi. 13. 



The Bonin White-eyed Warbler was discovered in 1828 by Kittlitz, 

 and remained unknown until it was rediscovered in 1889 by Mr. 

 Hoist (Seebohm, Ibis, 1890, p. 100). The only record that I can 

 find of any example having been seen between these dates is that of 

 two live birds in the National Museum at Tokio (Blakiston and 

 Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 138, no. 180|). I have twelve 



