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Mr. R. Swinhoe on Birds from Hakodadi . 
XVIII.— On some Birds from Hakodadi, in Northern Japan. 
By R. Swinhoe. 
(Plate VII.) 
Mr. Thomas Blakiston, resident in Hakodadi, the port of 
Yesso, the most northern island of the Japanese group, with 
the help of a Japanese gentleman, Mr. Fukusi Goro, in the 
service of the Japanese Government, has again been collecting 
the birds of Northern Japan, and has sent me a fine series, 
which I have carefully studied and compared, and will now 
enumerate, with remarks. 
With the Japanese birds are included two skins marked as 
coming from G heyinsk, at the head of an inlet in the north 
of the Sea of Oehotsk. Of these one is a fine adult of the 
Aleutian Islands* Sea Eagle, Haliaetuspelagicus (Pall.), and 
the other a male Amoorland Capercailzie, Tetrao urogalloides, 
Midd. Both were probably procured from some Russian ves¬ 
sel from the north; and that is the only way I can account 
for the Dutch “ voyageurs ** of the f Fauna Japonica* find¬ 
ing the monster Sea-Eagle at Nagasaki, 
1. Black-eared Kite. Milvus melanotis , T. & S. 
A very rufous male shot in March, and nearly as bright- 
coloured as the plate of the adult female in the ‘Fauna Ja- 
ponica.* This rufescence is. I presume, accidental—though, 
out of a large series from various parts of China, from Canton 
to Pekin, I have not one so coloured. In these the occi¬ 
put and axillaries often show reddish feathers; but in the 
Hakodadi specimen the head and neck, back, axillaries, and 
breast are all reddish. I was at first disposed to think that 
we had in this a distinct species, corresponding to the red 
figure in the ‘ Fauna Japonica/ which has long been a stum¬ 
bling-block to me; but I cannot find any distinction of form 
to warrant such a belief. The other figure in the ‘ Fauna 
Japonica/ that of a male, presents the appearance of the bird 
that ranges along the China coast. The birds I procured in 
Hainan are much smaller and darker, with larger bill, and less 
white on the under quills. These I take to be the typical M. 
