BIRDS FROM ISLANDS BETWEEN KIUSHU AND FORMOSA. 



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The color of adult plumage, which is the same in both sexes, may be 

 summarily described as follows : Forehead, lores, circumorbital and malar 

 regions jet-black. Crown of head, auriculars, hind-neck, sides and front of 

 neck, wings and tail deep Prussian-blue Feathers of the crown with indis- 

 tinct vermiculation. Those of the throat lanceolate with lax barbules, black 

 with white shaft-lines. Back and rump as well as breast, belly and 

 under tail-coverts vinous chestnut-red Greater wing-coverts and most 

 secondaries banded with black and Prussian-blue on the outer webs (no 

 white bars). Remiges and rectrices with white tip, mostly blackish on the 

 inner webs and towards the end. Outermost rectrix shorter than the in- 

 nermost by about 26mm. According to the collector's notes, the much 

 compressed bill, the feet and claws are all light blue ; iris deep blue 



The young specimens differ from the adults chiefly in having the head 

 and neck dull dark-brown intermixed with a greater or less number of blue 

 feathers and in wanting white tip to remiges and rectrices. 



Blakiston and Pryer (/. c) mention the information given them by 

 Seebohm to the effect that the head and ear-coverts in G. licitili is rufous. 

 This is evidently a mistake. 



40. Lanius bucephalus T. & s. 



(Mozu). 



Tanegashima : 22 specimens obtained in Nov. and Dec 

 Yakushima : 9 specimens in Sept , Oct. and Nov. 

 Amami-Öshima : 1.9. , Nov 29 



41. Pericrocolus legimae Stejn. 



(Riukiu-Shanshokui). 



Tanegashima : 2 9 s and 1 £ obtained in Nov. 

 Yakushima : 1 % , Sept. 28, at Kosugidani. 

 Amami-Öshima: i° and 3 ^ s. Sept 7 — Nov. iS. 

 Okinawashima : 2 £ s, May 5 and April 15 at Naha. 



Ishigaki : 1 J 1 and 1 May 28 and June 28, on Kawarayama and 

 Omotodake. 



