From August 5 to 24 in 1969, I made a small expedition in company with Mr. Tanaka, Professor of Yamate Women's College who collected butterflies. As I collected or observed 53 species of birds near Mt. Kinabalu, I am going to inform the results of my trip.
Expecting to get lowland species, submontane species and shore species, headquarters in Borneo were
1. From Aug. 8 to 13 in Kota Belud.
2. From Aug. 14 to 16 in Kundasang.
3. From Aug. 17 to 23 in Papar.
1. Pandasan, about half an hour's distance from Kota Belud by jeep, is one of the best places to observe and to collect birds. There were lovely woods and streams, and the number and species of birds abundant.
There were many Doves and Pigeons, Bulbuls, Drongos, Leafbirds, Kingfishers, Flowerpeckers, Sunbirds, Flycatchers, Cuckoos, and etc.
2. Kundasang, at the halfway of Mt. Kinabalu, is a cool and comfortable place being about 5000 feet above sea level. I heard that this area was one of the best places to observe submontane species of birds.
But so far as this season was concerned, the number of birds was rather few. I could collect some submontane species though.
3. Papar, near seashore, is situated about 15 miles south from Kota Kinabalu, and is the place having moderate woods and several ponds. In the other seasons large number of Plovers and Snipes are to assemble on this seashore. But in this season only a small number of them were dotted.
Over much of this range birds were found in large numbers, but the species of ones were rather few.
In Papar White collored Kingfishers were conspicuously many, and also various kinds of Sunbirds and White-bellied Swiftlets were many. Tailorbirds and Fantail Flycatchers could be found in large numbers, too.
I went to Java in 1961, Formosa in 1967, and India in 1968 for the purpose of collecting birds. As compared with those areas, I couldn't even catch a glimpse of Barbets and Woodpeckers which I had expected to observe. Of couse Tree Sparrows or House Sparrows were not seen, but I could see a lot of Munias that fed on grains of rice. I could hardly see Ground Thrushes. Drongos were very few. But Cuckoos, White breasted Waterhens, Spotted-necked Doves, and Tailor Birds were seen in large numbers in these areas.
Mr. Tsen, a subcurator of the Sabah Museum, collected White Ground Thrush (Zoothera dauma) in Mantanani island near Borneo during our trip. This Thrush is a new recoad in Borneo. As I brought back this specimen to Japan, I will explain about it later.
I got about 130 birds in Borneo, and some of them were left behind to the Sabah Museum.
Next I am going to discourse upon the species that I brought back to Japan, and the birds whose existence I confirmed only by the observation of them.
During our trip to Borneo, I was offered a great help by the Sabah Museum. Especially Mr. Pike, a curator of the Museum, took pains for the arrangment of our various programs. I am very thankful to him and Museum's staff for the many kindness that given to us. In Japan I was given advice about identification of my collected birds from Mr. Kobayashi. I would like to express my hearty thanks to him too.

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(1) On the occasion of the Tokachi-oki Earthquake (May 17, 1968), a male North Green Pheasant was obsrved in cries reacted to the earthquake in the field.
That was at the natural grove in Miyako region, Iwate Prefecture, the seismic intensity was corresponded to IV there, noise by the quake was slight, the pheasant's cries might be heard with every interval about 5 seconds during the definite period of time in distinct quake.
Which cring was obviously frequent compared with that of the ordinal habit of him.
The every crying was corresponded to the displaying crow, not of the screaming in terror.
(2) On the occasion of the Kanto Severe Earthquake (Sept. 1, 1923), Dr. Seiichi KUZU could hear no cries among the many Green Pheasants he had being breeded in Tokyo.
(3) On the occasion of a weak earthquake at Sendai City (June 20, 1969), the seismic intensity presumed was about II-III, many glazed windows of a structure gave out violent noise, a male North Green Pheasant, which had been occasionary crowed with very long intervals at the neighbouring bush, began to crow continuously with short intervals were shortened still more in proportionally to the intensification of the windows' noise up to nothing and the crows duplicated each other, and then the crows retrogressed gradually with the noise finally to silence.
(4) According to the mentioned facts, the author concluded that the Green Pheasant may reacts against the noise only on the occasion of the earthquake in the male's displaying crow during the breeding season, notwithstanding there had been a firm popular view among the Japanese people that the Green Pheasant screams in terror under the quake of the earth.

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A captured couple of the Japanese Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula griseiventris LAFRESNAYE bred in a handy cage, and an old male as well as a young male lived more than ten years in the indoor cage.
Which facts were brought up within a work as a hobby of Dr. Tetsuro IKEDA, the former chief scientist of the International Latitude Observatory, Mizusawa City. The most data are based on Mrs. IKEDA'S diary.
The old male was brought into the cage in October, 1958, the female followed about a month later, three chickens hatched on June 1, 1959.
The old birds were mainly fed with the seeds of Perilla frutescens, and vegetables and fruits were given subsidiarily.
Dr. IKEDA collected insets and worms for the chickens, and their parents gave them to the chickens successfully.
The old female and two youngs were lost on earlier days by escape or death, the survived old male closed his longevity in senility on Oct. 9, 1969, and the young dead on Feb. 12, 1970.

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1. The author, having observed from April of 1967 to May of 1970 the seasonal changes of bird community in Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture, which is the central part of the Boso Hills, observed birds of 12 orders, 26 families and 48 species.
2. In the Boso Hills, compared with other regions, the number of birds and of species of birds are not very large. Two reasons might be given for this. One is that this peninsula consists mainly of low hills with no higher mountains. Atagoyama, which is 405 meters high, for example, is the highest hill-top of this district. Consequently birds are very poorly distributed vertically. The other reason is that the town is far from coastlines and that it has few marshes and it is removed from the stop-over of migrant birds, particularly of water fowls.
3. This district is very important as a winter resort of birds, since the weather is very warm here even in winter, unlike the Central Mountain District. 11 species of winter birds were seen.
4. The birds in the hills are divided into three types: the farmland type represented by Emberiza cioides, the woodland type represented by Aegithalos caudatus, and the river type represented by Alcedo atthis.
5. On further investigation, it will be known that there are many more birds in the Boso Hills. Three years is too short to observe the behavior of birds, especially of winter birds.
6. By transect method, the author observed in Tsurumai, Ichihara City, the seasonal changes of the population density of birds in the area of 400m. by 500m., the result of which is classified by species.
7. On June 17, 1969 I took a census of birds in Tsurumai, and it was found out that 16 species of bird could be seen between four and six in the morning, 11 species between six and seven in the evening, and five to seven species in the daytime.
8. The investigation on the territory of Lanius bucephalus bucephalus and the distribution of Milvus migrans lineatus is reported in this article.

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Recentry, two populations of the Japanese Ptarmigan are found on Mt. Hiuchi (8, 075 ft.) and Mt. Yakeyama (7, 872 ft), Kubiki Mountain Range, northern part of central Japan (Fig. 1). Oen sub-adult group of the bird was observed on Mt. Yakeyama in 1969, which suggested a possibility of its breeding on the mountain.
The ptarmigan is one of the national monuments in Japan. Few ecological observations on the ptarmigan are carried out on Mt. Fuji (12, 385 ft.), Mt. Hiuchi and Mt. Iizuna (6, 288 ft).
Extinction of the ptarmigan caused by human works on Mt. Fuji (the highest mountain in Japan) was reported by Chiba in 1971.
Detailed observations of the ptarmigan on Mt. Yakeyama were made during June 24-28, 1971 to get some ecological informations. Vegetations of the mountain, size and structure of the population, their nest and eggs and evaluations of their habitat are reported on this paper.
Mt. Yakeyama is a cone-shaped mountain that has a large crater on the top. The top has a very poor vegetation causing by active volcano. Some patches of Pinus pumila are found on southern slope near the top, and Alnus maximowiczii surrounds the mountain (Fig. 6).
Two pairs of ptarmigan showed up on the southern slope above 7, 544 ft. high. One nest containing six eggs nearly hatched was found in deep Pinus pumila bush (Fig. 3).
Summer and winter droppings (Figs. 2-a, 2-b) and sandbaths are marked on the map (Fig. 5).This seems to show their habitat on this mountain.
They come down to get foods (buds appearing on snow) as low as 5, 904 ft. in winter, on the other, in summer they stay mostly around the top to avoid terrestrial predators.
A few ptarmigans were observed in early spring and late fall on Mt. Myoko (8, 023 ft.) where no nest had been reported. These records suggest the possibility of temporary shortdistance migration in snow season.
Breeding site of the bird supposed to be restricted to pine bush on this mountain. Two or three breeding pairs supposed to lay their eggs in this bush (the second pair would lay their eggs after the first nestlings were fledged): they seem to use the same nesting site alternatively. In many cases, chickens of the Japanese Ptarmigan were found in June in other mountains whereas some immediately after hatched were observed on Mt. Yakeyama in August.

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I took a voyage to east Africa as a shipdoctor of Miss Heian-maru of N.Y.K. Line from 10th March to 10th May 1970. The return voyage from Africa touched at the port Inchon, Korea 6th May 1970. At that time I obtained Chinese White-breasted Water-Hen (Fig.1) that was caught by Korean strevedore on the bay of Inchon. Till now Chinese White-breasted Water-Hen was not reported from Korea. Therefore I report as a new record of Chinese White-breasted Water-Hen from Korea.

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