During the years from 1963 to 1965 in spring and summer, 1 had chance to observe sea birds of southern sea area of Japan. Its took place by coastal liners and skipjack fishing vessels which courses indicate to Figure 1.
In this observation 20 species, Storm Petrels and Jaegers were observed. Es-pecially, six photographs of Stejneger's Pterodroma longirostris were taken on five films in July 2, 1964 near 38°N-149°30'E.

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Observation and banding of the Eastern House Swallow have been made in dense, matted vegetation of reed and flag from about 30 to 80cm above water, atAkuda since 1966. The area of the reed swamp is estimated at about 40, 000 square meters. About 20, 000 birds of Hirundo rustica, H. daurica, Passer montanus, Chloris sinica Sturnus cineraceus and Sturnia sturnia were found in this area at highest population.
Their roosting area changed by seasons: they roost at the southern part of the swamp in spring and from July to September they rest at the northern part of the area (Fig. 1).
Though it has been thought that they do not roost in spring and on rainy days, we could find them roosting under both these circumstances in this reed swamp. They roost together in this area from April 20 to June 17 every spring. The roosting behaviour and some other new facts were observed and are described in this paper .In addition to these the records of banded Eastern House Swallows are also listed.

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Dr. G. Nakata brought back 13 bird specimens consisting of 12 species which were collected during his stay in Iran from 1963 to 1968. Besides above, he took photos and or observed further 17 species.
Of those total 29 species, 3 species (Nycticorax nycticorax, Gallinula chloropus, Pica pica) are cosmopolitan.
Sterna sandvicensis is the species which distribute locally from Europe to Central Asia as well as in the New World.
Of the remaining 25 species, 24 species are distributed from Mediterranean region to Central Asia. Distribution of 11 species extended from Europe, Mediterranean region to as far as East Asia via Central Asia.
Seven species are common to Ethiopian region and 5 species are common to Oriental region. Only one species (Halcyon symrensis) is typical oriental region species which penetrated into Iran.
The above materials were collected or observed near Teheran. The majority elements are, as mentioned above, Mediterranean-Central Asian species and some Oriental and Ethiopian elements are penetrated into Iran.
However in my collection of Iranian birds, some typical desert type species like Rhodopechyo obsleta, Pteroches senegallus etc. are included. It is considered, therefore, Iranian avifauna is, as a whole, many desert type elements which distribute from Mongolia via Arabia desert south to Sahara desert are included.

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鳥類は,求愛行動がよく発達していて,♀に対する求婚のための方法はさまざまなものがある。囀りをしたり,♀に餌を与えたり,巣をつくったり,美しい羽を誇示したり,♀の前で踊りながら,また優美な動作を繰り返えしながら近づいたりする。そして,温度,光,植生,食物の質と量などが,求愛動作のうえに大きな影響力を持っている。踊りをおどる求愛動作は,最も進歩した求愛の方法で,鶉鶏類,燕雀類の鳥類が,他の鳥類にくらべて,洗練され,そして進化した姿を持っている。

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The following forms of parrots should be added to the list of live birds imported to Japan in my work on the "Psittacidae of the World" (1967: 24-30).

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The article contains some miscellaneous notes on several forms of the parrot tribes, such as Amazona, Forpus, Pinonus, Aprosinictus, etc.

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The record of this article contains nearly all known localities of the distribution of five species and subspecies of the fresh-water, surface-feeding or dabbling ducks, such as Mallard, Spot-bill Duck, Gadwall, and Teal.

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1968年6月24, 25, 26の3日間,午前5:00-5:30分と7:30-8:00分の間に小樽市春香町のホテルはせ川ガーデン付近で,18科26種(この他に種名の明らかでないもの3属,3個体)の鳥類を観察した。このホテルは小さな村落のはづれに位置し,付近には広い野原と小林地があり,ホテルの南東約1kmのところから大部分が二次林から成っている山林が続いている。
日本には野鳥観察を趣味として旅行している外国人のための案内書に類するものが皆無に近い状態なので,この報告がそれらの人々に資するところ大であると思う。同時にマミジロとジュウイチ(後者は鳴声のみ)がこの付近で観察されたことは,日本の読者にも大いに関心が持たれるであろう。

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1965年の3月中旬か4月にかけて,Mr. Woo, Ghong-Daeが(The Korea bird banding project, Migratory Animal Pathological Survey, U. S. Army Research and Development Group (Far East), U. S. Army Dept.)タイワンの諸所でタイワンの鳥類標識班と共に,標識試験を実施した際に,鳥類の採集をした。23種,51個体が採集され,The Institute of Ornithology, Kyung Hee University, Seoulに納められた。標本の一部は,黒田長久博士(The Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, Tokyo)の同定を受けた。標識試験の実施は,The U. S. Army Research and Development Group (Far East), Department of the Armyの援助によるものである。

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1968年12月29日,福井県三方五湖を探鳥中,菅湖の北岸,切追部落に面する入江に,Netta ruina ♂1を発見した。本種は日本列島への渡来記録が無いので取敢えず報告する。

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