NOTES ON A THIRD INSTALLMENT OF JAPANESE BIRDS IN THE SCIENCE COLLEGE MUSEUM, TOKYO, JAPAN, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. BY Leonhard Stejneger. The title of this paper explains the origin and raison Wetre of the following remarks. For fuller explanation I would refer to the intro-ductory note to the first paper of this series (Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, No. 874, 181)1, pp. 489-498). The second paper is entitled " Two Additions to the Japanese Avifauna, including Description of a New Species" (Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., xv, No. 90G, 1892, pp. 371-373). The first paper made eight additions to the avifauna of Japan; the second two species; the third paper (the jiresent one) also adds eight species to the list. An inspection of the material in the Science Col-lege Museum has consequently so far added eighteen species, several of which were hitherto undescribed. It has, moreover, resulted in clear-ing up many doubtful jioints and identifications, and I have had an op-portunity to examine several rare species of which I had hitherto seen no Japanese specimens. For these and many other favors I wish to ex-press my indebtedness to the authorities of the Science College Mu-seum, particularly to Dr. I. Ijima. Urinator pacificus (Lawr.). A young specimen (No. 576; $ ; Tajiri, March 14, 1884) is in all probability referable to the present species. The dimensions are very small, particularly the bill, and as the bird is at least nine months old, the bill has probably attained full size. This would make the second Japanese specimen of this species, the first one having been recorded by me but recently (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XV, 1892, p. 291). (64) Gygis Candida (Gui.). The exact identity of Blakiston and Pryer's No. 64 has been some-what doubtful, though the probabilty that it was the present species was very strong. It is therefore interesting to learn from Dr. Ijima that Mr. Namiye has compared the specimen in question with the bird sent and found them to be identical, and as the latter bird is an un-questionable Gygis Candida the doulit is set at rest. We are still igno-Proceediugs National Muscuiii, Vol. XVI — No. 957. 615
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