ns of Cuculus saturatus and Prinia flaviventris sonitans": Tort, XI (55), pp 
1, 2 photo, Sep 1944, 
In Formosa C, saturatus commonly lays its eggs in the nest of P, flaviventris. 
‘The color of the egzs is similar, but the cuckoo's eges are much larger and lack 
the glossiness, 
Kumageya, Saburo 
1944 
Oystercatcher's Miscellany (miyakodori Shinko), 12mo, Tokyo, pp 1-138, 7 fig, 1944, 

This book is a more poetic than scientific treetment of the gulls which have 
been known since early feudal times as "Kamome" in Japanese, Tne Japanese name 
of the less common oystercatcher is of uncertain derivation, "Miyakxodori", 
literally "town bird". Literary men of former days, unversed in native bird 
names, wrote poems in admiration of the gulls, the "white birds floating on the 
rivers", in Kyoto and Tokyo and called them "town birds" in error, 
Kuno, Kentsro 
1942 
Kurode, 
1941 
Kuroda, 
"The Avifauna of Mt Echigo Koma After the Breeding Season": Tori, XI (53,54), pp 
388-405, 1 map, Dee 1942, 
The author visited Echigo mountain three times during June end July and observed 
and heard 344 individuals of 53 species, The population was greater at lower 
altitudes, 
Nagahisa 
"A Hybrid Between the Silver and Black-Tailed Gulls": Tori, XI (51,52), pp 146-150, 
3 pl, Oct 1941, 
A male Larus novaehollandiae and a female L, crassirostris bred two successive 
years in’the Kyoto zoo, In 1939 two of their three eggs hatched, but the chicks 
died the same day, In 1940 one of three chicks hatched reached maturity, The 
incubation and care of young are done mostly by the male, The immature birds 
resemble the female. 
s 
Negamichi (see also Taka-Tsukasa, N,, and Kuroda, N.) 
1941-42 "A Study of the Marianas Duck, Anas oustaleti": pt 1 Tori, XI (51,52), pp 99- 
10 
119, 6 pl, Oct 1941; pt 2 Tori, XI (53,54), pp 443-448, 3 photo, Dec 1942, 
od jo4e 
Tnis duck is known only from the islands of Saipan, Tinian, and Guam in the 
Marianas, About 40 svecimens are preserved, The author obtained and brought 
to Tokyo four live svecimens from Hagoi Lake on Tinian Island, Adults exhibit 
both nuptial and eclipse plumage at the same time, suggesting that they breed 
at all times of the year, The post-nuptial plumage and the color of the legs 
of the drake resemble those of mallard and are quite different from Anas super- 
ciliosa, The view that A, oustaleti may be hybrid between A, platyrhynchos and 
A, superciliosa is not thought tenable because these two svecies have never been 
obtained from the Marianas, The author considers A, oustaleti a valid species 
which probebly developed from northern mallard stock and places it systematically 
next to A, platyrhynchos, The species breeds in July on Challankanoa Lake, 
Sainan, and lays from 7 to 12 eggs per clutch, On Hagoi Lake in Tinian two 
flocks of more than 50 ducks were observed, Photographs of the nest and eggs 
and the incubating parent are believed to be the first ever taken, Ducklings 
and incubated eggs have been found in June and July, but their breeding season 
is believed to be longer. Color of the duckling resembles that of the mallard, 
but general color of tne back is more brownish, 
