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tills though much resembling both, and strictly of the same subgeneric group. 
It is shorter in the wings and has larger legs and feet than either, and differs 
also in color. A single specimen only is in the present collection. 
No species of this group is enumerated in Temminck and Schlegel's Catalogue, 
nor do we find any description of an Asiatic species applicable to the present 
species. Its nearest relative is >S'. luscinioides. It may also be related to Locus- 
tella rubescens. Blyth. Jour. As. Soc. xiv. p. 582. 
14. LusciNiopsis Hendbrsonii, nobis. 
Resembling the preceding, but much smaller, and also resembling Sylvia locus- 
tella of Europe. Wings short, legs and feet large, toes long, tail rather wide, 
rounded. Upper parts dark olive green, with a tinge of brown, every feather 
with a central stripe of brownish black. Under parts yellowish white, breast 
with numerous small spots of brownish black, sides and tibise greenish brown, 
tail dark brown, abdomen, under tail coverts and under wing coverts with a 
tinge of very pale reddish. Bill with the upper mandible dark horn color, under 
mandible lighter, feet pale yellowish. Total length about 4^ inches, wing 2^, 
tail 1^ inches. 
Hah. — Hakodadi, Island of Jesso, Japan. Discovered by A. A. Henderson . 
M. D., U. S. Navy. 
This little bird appears to us to be of rather complex generic, or, perhaps, 
more properly, subgeneric relations, and would be quite as properly included 
in the genus Locustella as in Lutsciniopsis, and in fact bears considerable resem- 
blance and relationship to the European Sylvia locustella. It much resembles 
the preceding, having the same short wings, rounded tail, and very strong legs 
and long toes, but the bill is comparatively smaller. As will be seen by the 
measurements given, the present bird is much smaller than the preceding, and 
is smaller also than S. locustella. 
One specimen only in the collection made by Dr. Henderson, to whom we 
have dedicated this curious little species, his high position as an officer of the 
Medical corps of the Navy of the United States, and extensive acquirements 
also as a naturalist, fully justifying it, but especially his untiring energy in con- 
tributing to the ornithological collection of this Academy renders the present 
application of his name entirely appropriate. The present bird does not much 
resemble any species enumerated by Temminck and Schlegel. 
15. BuTALis ciNEREo-ALBA, (Tcmm. and Schleg.) 
Muscicapa cinereo-alba, Temm. and Schleg. , Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 42, pi. 15. 
High up in the trees, behind Hakodadi, several together. (Dr. Henderson.) 
16. Mbrula Naumannii, (Temminck.) 
Turdus Naumannii, Temm., Man. d'Orn. i. p. 170. 
Turdus eunomus, Temm., PI. col. (lir. 87.) 
Turdus dubius, Naumann. 
Turdus fuscatus, Pallas? 
Temm., PI. col. 514. Naumann, B. of Germ. pi. 68. Gould, B, of Eur. ii. 
pi. 79. 
Several specimens in excellent plumage, and undoubtedly the species figured 
by all the authors above cited. Resembling somewhat but quite distinct from 
T. atrigularis^ Natt. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 75, of which specimens from Siberia 
are in the museum of the Academy. 
"Very numerous everywhere in the vicinity of Hakodadi in scattered flocks. 
When disturbed, uttered a note resembling that of dierula migratoria of the 
United States, which it also much resembles in general habits." (Dr. Hen- 
derson.) 
17. Alcedo bengalensis, Gmelin. 
Alcedo bengalensis, Gm., Syst. Nat. i. p. 450. (1788.) 
Temm. and Schlg., Faun. Jap. Aves, pi. 38. 
Hakodadi. 
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