Mr. R. Swinhoe on Birds from Hakodadi. 153 
Bonaparte, in his Conspectus, p. 222, puts this species 
after T. europeeus, and refers to it as “ coloribus obscurioribus 
mx distinctus ! ” He must either have had a bad specimen 
to judge from, or he must have made a very hurried compa¬ 
rison between the two species. Blakiston has sent a male 
shot in February ; and I have a mutilated skin, without label, 
received from Mr. Collingwood. The species has a compa¬ 
ratively long tail, and comes nearer to some of the American 
Wrens than to the European species^. It is of a rich reddish 
brown on the upper parts, wings, and tail, browner on the 
head and hind neck; the back, rump, wings, and tail are 
banded with blackish brown ; the 2nd to the 5 th quills (re- 
miges) having whitish spots on the outer web. The under¬ 
parts are lighter brown, mottled on the breast and belly with 
black, and barred on the under tail-coverts, which are tipped 
with white ; under wing-coverts and belly mottled with white. 
Total length about 43 inches; wing 2T, 3rd and 4th quills 
equal and longest; tail 1*45, the outer feather *23 shorter 
than centrals. 
8. Eastern Reed-Thrush. €alamoherpe orientalis (T. &S.) < 
A male shot in May, with red rictus, whitish throat, and 
indications of streaks on the breast. 
9. Kamtschatkan Grasshopper-Lark. Locustella subcer- 
thiola, sp. nov. 
Blakiston has now sent the same specimen which in 1863 
I thought to be a pale L. ochotensis. The bird, however, 
was not compared, and my identification was from memory 
(see Ibis, 1863, p. 98). I have recived from Dr. v. Schrenck 
at St. Petersburg two skins from Kamtschatka, marked L. cer - 
thiola , that tally with Blaldston J s bird. Von Schrenck found 
the true L. certhiola in Amoorland ; for he speaks of it in his 
* [Mr. Swinhoe’s skin seems scarcely separable from the Winter-Wren 
of North America, Troglodytes hyemails, or at all events from the var. alas- 
eensis of Prof. Baird (Trans. Chicago Acad. 1869, p. 315). As this form 
of Wren, according to Mr. Dali (Proc. California Acad. March 14,1871),. 
is a resident throughout the Aleutian Isles, and everywhere there u very 
abundant and tame,” we can easily understand its occurrence in Japan.— 
P.L.S.] 
