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Migrations, food and breeding habits of Eurystomus, Otus scops, Dendronanthus, Muscicapula c. cyanomelaena, Terpsiphone atrocaudata, Tetrastes, Halcyon coromanda, Ceryle lugubris, Halcyon pileata and Gallicrex cinerea are given. Lesser notes are Turdus aureus, Streptopelia decaocto, Erythrina erythrina, Larvivora sibilans, Capella stenura, C. gallinago, Eophona migratoria. Dr. Nagamichi Kuroda in a footnote states that E. erythrina is probably a mistake for E. rosea. Also gives an unauthenticated sight record of two Pseudotadorna in late March, 1943 in Chushinhokudo. These ducks fly like Ruddy Sheldrakes but wing pattern is more marked and shapes of head and neck are different.

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Although the Osprey is far from being a rare bird in Japan, to date, no full information has been published regarding its nest and eggs found within the country. Fortunately, on April 27, 1951, I was able to locate a single nest on the island of Awaji in Hyogo Prefecture and present here the following information regarding that eyrie.
Locality: On mountain slope in extreme southern portion of Awaji Island at approximately 450 meters.
Nest: In top of red pine tree, 71/2 meters above the ground.
Outer diameter: 160×160cm.
Inner diameter: 65×65cm.
Overall heiget of nest: 40cm.
Depth: 10cm.
Shape: fairly large and inclined to be flat on top.
Construction: of dead pine branches lined with old straw rope.
Eggs: Number: two (2) in the set.
Measurements Weight Condition
64.0×47.0 mm. 79.0 grams Slightly developed
62.5×45.5 mm. 68.5 grams Infertile
Markings: Blotched and spotted with rich red or chocolate and ashy shell markings on a white ground.

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In Japan the wild hybrid between the two indigenous pheasants Phasianus (versicolor group) and Syrmaticus soemmerringii is exceedingly scarce. Gives five authentic records. Some specimens show the plumage of Phasianus slightly more while others have more Syrmaticus pattern. They were all taken in the northern part of Honshu. Mr. K. Kobayashi's specimen taken in January, 1951 is the only one existing among collections in Japan.

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In February 5, 1953, the author obtained a drowned Pallas' Guillemot on the beach of the Manazuru Promontory, Kanagawa Prefecture. This species is found uncommonly in Hokkaido and northern Honshu but its occurrence so far south as Kanagawa Prefecture is most unusual.

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In 1952, Mr. Jack T. Moyer observed several Pryer's Grass-Warblers, Bradypterus pryeri pryeri (Seebohm) at a marsh of Tamatsukuri, northeast coast of the Lake Kasumigaura, Namekata-gun, Ibaraki Prefecture. One or two examples he then collected are now in his collection. Also in January, 1952, Captain (Surgeon) R. B. W. Smith, an ornithologist at Haneda Air-Base, has collected this species at the air-base field (not marshy place). The specimen, however, was taken by rat before being stuffed, and the sex is unclear. The above two localities, Tamatsukuri and Haneda (Tokyo), are new additions to the known records of the Preyer's Grass-Warbler.
It was added that prior to Seebohm's description of 'Megalurus pryeri, n. sp.', the species was known to Blakiston and Pryer who made it a species of the Genus Cisticola, in their papers in Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, viii, pt. 2 (1880) and x, pt. 1 (1882), about which the readers will find the quotations in the text.

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