As the result of comparison of 110 specimens of Accipiter nisus nisosimilis from Sakhalin, Japan, Korea, Manchuria and China, etc., the author recognizes the pale form pallens. Its valid specimen records are: Kamchatka (2 specs., Taczanowski), Hokkaido (_??_ ad. Dec. 1938-Kobayashi Coll.; _??_ ad. Nov. 1956-Mishima Coll.), 'Honshiu' _??_ juv. Autumn 1934-Yamashina (Momiyama) Coll.), Ibaraki Pref. (Type, _??_ ad. Jan. 1892-Yamashina Coll.) and Saitama Pref. (_??_ juv. Nov. 1941-Yamashina Coll.).

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In author's recent avifaunal research made in Mie Prefecture, records of the following two species are worth reporting.
The Reef Heron, Demigretta sacra ringeri was observed, as expected, in winters of 1958 (_??__??_ collected) and 1959 on the rocky coasts of Owashi and Nagashima of south Kii Peninsula.
The Japanese Wood Pigeon, Columba j. janthina, now almost extinct from mainland of Honshiu, was found on a small island, Suzushima in Nagashima-machi, Kita-muro-gun, where it was formerly common. Two birds observed were among a flock of Streptopelia orientalis. It is a typical species in the warm evergreen broad-leave forest.

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In April 1958, Mr. Yasuaki Okada and I went to Torishima, the only known present-day breeding place of Steller's Albatross. A description of the island and of all the birds seen there as well as on the trip down and back (as far as Hachijojima) is given.
In closing I would like to express my gratitude to Mr. Hajime Fuchimoto, Chief of the Detached Island Section of Chuo Kishodai, without whose kind help we would never have been able to take the trip to Torishima. Also I would like to thank the numerous people at Chuo Kishodai, on the ship, and at the weather station who helped us and made the trip very pleasurable as well as successful.

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The breeding of the Fan-tail Warbler, Cisticola juncidis in Kiushiu, is not definitely given in the Hand-list, 4th ed. In this report, however, are listed and mapped many summer observations in Kiushiu made by the author and others, which include breeding evidences.

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Mugimaki Flycatcher breeds in Sakhalin and Siberia and winters in southern Asia, passing Japan as a transient. Udagawa considered it an autumn migrant, which occurs only as stragglers in spring (May and March, the latter being doubtful and his theory of correlation with snow line is not tenable). The author adds five spring records (May) from Hokkaido, Honshiu and S. Korea, which prove its regular passage in this season, though less notice than in autumn, when it moves slowly in broad front with its number multiplied by young birds. Birds might stop and breed if they found a suitable breeding environment before reaching finar destination. Udagawa's late May observation of a pair in Fuji Mt., Honshin, might be such an example. Suggestion is given of its migration routes.

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Some 200 introduced Banzbusicola thoracica have been released in the hill near Kobe about 30 years ago. They may have included more B. th. sonorivox (of Formosa) than thoracica (of China). Although later spread of thoracica is well known, no attention has been payed of sonorivox, about 20 birds of which were however found by the author in 1960, still surviving within a limitted area of its former release.

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A male Bucephala clangula obtained in Akita, December 1959 had in its oesophagus: 1 Oryzias latipes, 4 Pseudorasbora parva (fish) and 6 larvae of Hynobius lichenatus (Salamander). The amphibia is first reported here as its food.

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In Toyama, the Pied Wagtail has been observed (1957-1959) in flocks when arriving and up to 200 birds roosted every year on iron and concrete bridges of River Sho near Shinminato through the winter, except when heavy snow.

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