534 



NAGAMICIII KURODA : 



A female in breeding plumage was obtained at Mukden, May 5. 



126 JJeiidronantJius indica (Gm.) 

 Iwami-sekirei. 



Harter!, Vög., Pal., p. 309, Fig. 53; Clark, Troc. U.S. Nat Mus., Vol. XXXVIII, 

 p. 171; Limomdromtis indtcus (Gm.), Tacz., P. Z. S., 1887, p. 603; Tacz., op. 

 cit., 188S, p. 464; Campbell, Ibis, 1892, p. 237; Nemoricota ìndica (Gm.), 

 Tristram, Ibis, 1885, p. 194. 



An adult specimen (sex ?) was presented to me by Mr. S. Waki- 

 yama. It was obtained on Hakugyokusan, Port Arthur, May 19. 



127. Anthus trivialis yunnanensis Uch. & Kurod. 

 Kobashi-binzui. 



? A. trivialis maculala* (nec. Jerdon !), Ingram, Ibis, 1909, p. 435; A. mactihittis 

 yunnanensis Uchida >.V Kuroda, Annot. Zool. Japon., Vol. IX. 1916, p. 134. 



An adult bird (sex ?) was obtained at Hokuryö, Mukden, May 5, 

 and an adult male near Port Arthur, May 9. The dimensions of bill 

 are as follows : 



Loc. 



Bill from gape. 



Culmen. 



Sex. 



I Iokuryô 



Near Port Arthur 



15 mm. 



>s * 



14 mm. 

 13S 



? 



These short-billed birds agree exactly with the form occurring in 

 Formosa, Yunnan, and Tonkin. Mr. Uchida and I noticed that the A. 

 maculatus occurring in Yunnan and Formosa has a shorter bill in com- 

 parison with the series of Japanese birds, and so proposed to call it 

 by the name of A. vi. yunnanensis in a paper published in Annot. Zool. 

 Japon., Vol. IX., 1916, p. 134. Having since learned that those occur- 

 ring in Tonkin and S. Manchuria are of the same subspecies, I doubted 

 the appropriateness of the name. I accordingly consulted Sharpe and 

 Dresser's works, which give the culmen of the typical Indian form to 



