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A CORRESPONDENT in Tokio sends us the following:—During the late summer and autumn some good work has been done in the ornithological way. Mr. P. L. Jouy, of the Smithsonian Institution, collected extensively in the region of Mount Fujiyama, at Chiu-senji Lake, near the celebrated shrines of Nikko, and on Tateyama Range, between the borders of the provinces of Shinshiu and Hida. A large number of beautifully prepared skins, with a good deal of information regarding the breeding habits of some of the rarer birds, is the result, which will be recorded in the February number of the Chrysanthemum, a magazine published at Yokohama,appearing in enlarged form with the commencement of this year. An article contributed by Capt. Blakiston in the January number, follows up those of his for September, October, and November, 1882, on ornithological work in Yezo during the past summer; in which is noticeable the occurrence of Locustella certhiola (Pall), and Phylloscopus borealis (Blasius) on that island; and the discovery of a new species of Motacilla (probably described by Seebohm in the Ibis for January, 1883), allied to M. ocularis (Swinhoe) and M. amurensis (Seebohm), which has hitherto somehow been mixed up with M. lugens of the “Fauna Japonica,” which latter is now found to be —to qtiote Capt. Blakiston's words (Chrysanthemum, January, 1883, p. 31)—“a species unique in its genus, having in the adult state the same appearance winter and summer, and in which the young pass at once before their first winter into the adult dress.”
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Zoology in Japan . Nature 27, 614 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027614a0
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