Take-Tsukesa, Nobusuke, Uchida, S., Kuroda, N., and Yamashina, Y. 
1943-44 Monograph of the Birds of Greater East Asia (Dai Toa Chorui Zufu), demy folio, 
Tokyo; pt 1,6 pl; pt 2,6 pl; pt 3,6 pl; pt 4,6 pl, 1943, 1944, 
That this handsomely illustrated folio, started 18 months before the surrender, 
would ever be completed was doubted even by the collaborators themselves, The 
printing plant, the only one in Japan capable of handling so ambitious a project, 
was completely destroyed after the fourth part appeared,, The value of the work 
lies essentially in its color plates. The text is of secondary importance, only 
a@ page or a page and a half at most being given to each plate, The original 
paintings were executed by S, Kobayashi, K, Sakamoto, M, Deguchi, end M, Mizuno. 
Takewaki, Kiyoshi and Mori, Hideshi 
"Mechanism of Molting in the Canary" (in English): Jour Fae Sei Imp Univ Tokyo 
Sect IV, vol VI (5), pp 547-575, 2 pl, 1 Aug 1944 (actual publication Aug 1947), 
A series of experiments on the molting of canaries is described, and the observa- 
tion recorded, (1) The canary normally molts once yearly at the close of the 
breeding season. (2) If gonadal development is accelerated by lengthening the 
daily light periods, the inception of molting is also accelerated. Here also 
the canary begins to molt as the gonad undergoes regression, If the onset of 
sexual activity 1s suppressed by shortening the daylight periods, molting is 
also inhibited, (3) Change of temperature exerts no remarkable effect on the 
inception of molting, although lower temperatures seem to accelerate the rate 
of feather renewal, (4) The molting of the canary is not much affected by 
gonadectomy. (5) Injection of thyroxin produces severe molting at any season 
of the year, (6) Thyroidectomy just before or at the beginning of natural molt- 
ing permits almost normal molting, but the same performed several months prior 
to the molting season inhibits molting. (7) Administration of hypophyseal sub- 
stance can induce molting prior to the normal season in canaries with thyroids 
but not in those deprived of glande. (8) Androgen or estrogen can inhibit 
natural or thyroxin-induced molting, (9) Histological examination reveals 
activity in the thyroids of molting canaries, (10) The thyroid is important 
for the inception of molting in the canary, and light through its stimulation 
of the thyrotropic function of,the anterior hypophysis is one of the most im 
portant factors controlling thyroid activity. 
Torii, Hajime =-- See Yamashina, Y, wand Torii, H. 
Taucniya, Kyoichi 
1944 
"Habits and Distribution of the Pheasant-Tailed Jacana and the Bungalow Swallov in 
Formosa": Tori, XI (55), pp 588-594, 3 photo, Sep 1944, 

Hydrophasianus chirurgus sinensis breeds only in Tainan, Takao, and Taito pre- 
fectures, all within the Tropic of Cancer, from April to September. Only one 
brood is raised annually. Several new nesting localities of Biruzdo tahitica 
namiyei in Formosa are recorded, The swallow is known to breed only south of 
Amami Oshima, 
Uchida, Seinosuke (see also Taka-Tsukasa, Nobueuke, Uchida, S., Kuroda, N., and Yamgshine, 
Y¥.) 
1942 The Bird (Tori), 12mo, Tokyo, p 296, 49 text fig, 5 Feb 1942, 
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This textbook, written for non-specialists, should not be confused with the 
journal of the same name published by the Ornithological Society of Japan, It 
has chapters on the ancestry of birds, the origin of domestic fowl, extinct 
birds, eggs and nests, migration, song, territory, feeding habits, and birés in 
literature, It also contains a short resume of the birds of Japan and a popular 
account of species representative of major bird faunas of the rest of the world, 
