Japanese Journal of Ornithology

Some new records from the Izu Islands

Jack T. Moyer

1959 Volume 15 Issue 74 Pages 153-158
Published: December 10, 1959
Released on J-STAGE: February 26, 2009

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3838/jjo1915.15.74_153

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Artificial feeding of a chick of Grey-headed Lapwing

Haruo Fushihara

1959 Volume 15 Issue 74 Pages 159-166
Published: December 10, 1959
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3838/jjo1915.15.74_159

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In May, 1956, the author succeeded in raising a chick of Grey-headed Lapwing, Microsarcopus cinereus (Blyth). As food the common earthworm was given and after 11-15 days the chick ate 85-120 of it daily.
The weights of the chick taken during 20 days increased from 35 to 120 grams. Newr ecords of food given experimentally are as follows: gecko, goldfish, cockroach, locust, fly, basketworm, earwig, lacewingfly, myriapod, spider, snail etc. The vegetative food was not taken except rape.
Considerations and theories are given on each headings of the text, concerning the detailed behaviour of the growing chick.

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Ground nesting of the Japanese Brown Thrush

Susumu Ide

1959 Volume 15 Issue 74 Pages 167
Published: December 10, 1959
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3838/jjo1915.15.74_167

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A rare case of ground nesting by the Japanese Brown Thrush, Turdus chrysolaus, in Yamanashi Pref. is reported. The chicks seemed growing better than in normal branch nest; possibly the parents fed them easier at this ground nest.

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On some relatively rare waders

Hirakuzu Kobayashi

1959 Volume 15 Issue 74 Pages 168-170
Published: December 10, 1959
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3838/jjo1915.15.74_168

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The following records of three rare sandpipers are reported, with notes on their field identification and behaviour:
Tringa stagnatilis _??_ ad. 1 Sept. 1953 Coast of Himeji City, Hyogo.
Calidris melanotos _??_ ad. (hiem.) 21 Sept. 1953 Toyotomi-mura, Kanzaki-gun, Hyogo (Also, Mukawa, Hokkaido 1 _??_ ad. 14 Oct. 1953).
Calidris temminckii _??_ juv., ad. 8, 10 Sept., _??_ ad. 16 Oct. 1952; _??_ juv. 16 Sept. 1953 Marshes in Kanzaki-gun, Hyogo.

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Calandrella cinerea at Sakawa River, Kanagawa

Kazuo Sugizaki

1959 Volume 15 Issue 74 Pages 170-172
Published: December 10, 1959
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3838/jjo1915.15.74_170

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A short-toed Lark, Callandrella cinerea puii, was collected at R. Sakawa, Kanagawa, 6 May, 1958. From Japan only two specimens are known from Sado I. Its behaviour and identification are compared with the Skylark, Alauda.

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A device of an auto-cinematic food-recorder

Tomoo Royama

1959 Volume 15 Issue 74 Pages 172-176_2
Published: December 10, 1959
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3838/jjo1915.15.74_172

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Flocking behaviour of resident birds

Reviews and observations

Nagahisa Kuroda

1959 Volume 15 Issue 74 Pages 176-177
Published: December 10, 1959
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3838/jjo1915.15.74_176

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Flocking behaviours of Raven and House and Tree Sparrows known by literature and original observation are compared briefly. Their behaviours agree in that the adult birds maintain their breeding territories, while the young birds form wandering parties. In the Tree Sparrow in Japan, birds of big autumn roosting flocks are (possibly) all young birds, adults being observed to roost in their own permanent territories separately. This is different from the behaviour of Grey Starlings in which both adult and young birds make a single roosting flock together, i. e. of more 'mono-flocking' in habit.

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The Cape Shiriya area as route of migrants

Jicho Ishizawa

1959 Volume 15 Issue 74 Pages 177-179
Published: December 10, 1959
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3838/jjo1915.15.74_177

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Examing the bird specimens struck at Shiriya Light-house, Aomori, and which were sent by Mr. Mikami, the author supports Mikami's theory of migration route of Shiriya→Hidaka coast of Hokkaido; not the shortest flight course across Tsuruga Strait as generally believed.

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On the cycles of gonads and thyroid glands in migratory and resident birds

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Tsukasa Nakamura

1959 Volume 15 Issue 74 Pages 179
Published: December 10, 1959
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3838/jjo1915.15.74_179

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The author studied the seasonal changes of reproductive organs and thyroid glands of Japanese Tree-Sparrow, Passer montanus and migratory Eastern Great Reed Warbler, Acrocephalus arundinaceus (summer migrant). No marked change was shown in the thyroid and body weight but the reproductive organs of both sexes were distinctly cyclic. In the Tree Sparrow, the gonads markedly dec eloped from late February to reach the maximum in May, and degenerated gradually to the minimum in September. Only between October and December the ovary weight exceeded that of testes. In the Great Reed Warbler the testis rhythm was one to two months earlier than in the Tree Sparrow and the ovary weight exceeded that of the testes.

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Photographing the Fairy Pitta, Pitta brachyura nympha T. & S.

Takeo Hayashi

1959 Volume 15 Issue 74 Pages Plate1-Plate2
Published: December 10, 1959
Released on J-STAGE: December 24, 2008

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3838/jjo1915.15.74_Plate1

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