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the same species, and supposes that the examples found in Borneo have migrated from 
China. We have no proof, however, that Р. nympha is found in China, although it may 
possibly occur m Corea. In the article on P. moluccensis, I say that “ P. nympha does not 
yet appear to be represented by any specimen, unless possibly the one described by 
Salvadori as P. berte may be that species ;” but since that was written Mr. Jouy procured 
two specimens of P. nympha in Tsu-sima Island, Japan, and these specimens from the 
National Museum, Washington, where the Jouy collection now is, have been kindly. 
placed in my hands by my friend Prof. R. Ridgway and are represented in the Plate, and 
from one.of them my description. is taken. They are male and female, in perfect plumage, 
and agree with the figure published by Schlegel, /. с. Both have the black chin, and the 
blood-red of the abdomen is carried forward on to the breast, as is seen also in Salvadori's 
figure of P. berte. The colouring of the head is quite different from that of P. oreas, and 
the two appear to represent distinct species. How we may explain its appearance in such 
widely separated islands as Borneo and Tsu-sima is difficult to say; but the geographical 
distribution of the Pittidæ is m many instances so erratie and impossible of solution by 
any hypothesis yet advanced, that no surprise need exist at Р. nympha being an inhabitant 
of islands removed from each other by so great an interval of land and sea. 
The background in the Plate is from a Japanese drawing of the Island of Inosima, 
with the snow-capped peak of the sacred mountain Fusi-Yama in the distance. 
