The green heron is not a rare summer visitor to western Japan. It nests fairly commonly even in big cities in the Kansai area where it builds on tall gingko and pine trees. Some nest singly and others in colonies; five to eight nests were found in one pine forest covering about 400 tsubo. White roppings, dried newts, frogs and small fish found under a tree indicate the position of the nest. Such trees are usually lacking lower branches making access to the nest difficult. Thus records of eggs. of this heron have been scarce. On 14 April the author visited the colony but no eggs were layed; on 14 May seven nests apparently contained sitting birds and on 7 July the author found young almost ready to leave the nest. Therefore the eggs are layed between early May and mid-June. The average number of eggs in a clutch is three to six. Colour of egg is freshgreen somewhat deeper than that of a night-heron and an egret, but they are smeared with mud from the legs of the parents. A rough nost is placed nine to ten meters off the ground and used year after year. The structure is so frail that during windy days, eggs often fall out of nest. Measurements of eggs and nests are given.

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Turdus celaenops is a distinct species of thrush confined to the Seven Islands of Izu except Torishima. Its visit to the main island was recorded on five occasions. T. dissimilis of Burma and Yunnan, T. seebohmi of Borneo, T. obsourus, T. hortulorum and T. chrysolaus of the Palacarctic region are considered near relatives to T. celaenops. It is suggested that celaenops, chrysolaus, obscurus and dissimilis were derived from a same ancestral stock on the Asiatic continent and since the arrival of one strain to the Seven Islands, through selections and mutations, the present form, celaenops, was developed. Because the general resemblance in the plumage and the wing formula, celaenops is nearest related to chrysolaus.
Yakushimensis, the only known subspecies in Yakushima, is not considered valid and; as these subspecies have been taken only in October, Yakushima birds were probably migrants from the Seven Islands. Parallel cases are phylloscopus occipitalis ijimae and Luscinia akahige tanensis, the Seven Islands breeding subspecies which are known to winter in Yakushima and further south to the Ryukyu Islands.

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私は1939年日本鳥學會より「海南島鳥類目録」を出版した。この原稿は以上の補足であるけれども海南島産鳥類として追加さるべきものの中には出所の極めて不正確なものが多いのでこの點を明らかにする事が出來ないのは殘念であるが不確かなまゝ記録にとどめる事とした。各種類につけた番號は「目録」と一致するものである。

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タマシギは印度及びセイロンに普通の鳥であるが,交獻によると卵が半ば水にひたるような巣を作る事はない。多く水田の附近等に作られ稀には8吋から10吋高く巣を積み上げることもあるそうである。時としては水邊をはなれて乾燥した地上に營巣をする事もあるタマシギは一妻多夫の習慣があるらしいが,未だ研究が完全にされていない。けれども色の美しい雌が大聲で鳴き,色の美しくない雄が巣につくことはたしかである。そしてヒナの時代には一見雄の色彩を呈するから,繁殖のすんだ時雄ばかりと思われる1,2家族の群が飛んでいるのを見られた事もある。
タマシギの雌は繁殖期には,雌同志の爭闘をなし,果して多くの雄を占有するものであろうか,將來小林君の研究に俟つ所が多い。卵の色彩は交獻によると,印度産のものと同樣である。

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Specimens of a grouse brought back from Attu Island and exhibited in Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo during the war were labelled as "Hazel grouse", but it is obviously a mistake and must be known as Lagopus mutus evermanni, a local race of a ptarmigan.

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