Birds In Japan Research Articles

The Birds of Japan, Their Status and Distribution Oliver L. Austin, Jr. Nagahisa Kuroda

The Birds of Japan, Their Status and Distribution Oliver L. Austin, Jr. Nagahisa Kuroda

New Illustrations of the Birds of Japan. Seinosuke Uchida

Previous articleNext article No AccessNew Biological BooksNew Illustrations of the Birds of Japan. Seinosuke Uchida J. DelacourJ. Delacour Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 26, Number 4Dec., 1951 Published in association with Stony Brook University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/398507 PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Hachisuka's 'Comparative List of the Birds of Japan and the British Isles A Comparative Hand List of the Birds of Japan and the British Isles Masa U. Hachisuka

Hachisuka's 'Comparative List of the Birds of Japan and the British Isles A Comparative Hand List of the Birds of Japan and the British Isles Masa U. Hachisuka

Seebohm's “Birds of Japan”

MR. SEEBOHM'S work on the ornithology of Japan is sure to be welcome to naturalists, as it is always useful to have the avifauna of any country or group of islands monographed and historically brought up to date. In his latest work Mr. Seebohm has incorporated all the results obtained by recent explorers in Japan, and we have now a very fair idea of the birds of this portion of Eastern Asia. The map which accompanies the volume also helps to a better understanding of the relations of Japanese ornithology with those of the adjacent countries. Mr. Seebohm has further made use of the present work to amplify and expound his recently-published “Classification of Birds,” so that the work contains his latest views on this important subject. In his original work he gave two schemes of arrangement, giving a preference to the second or “alternative” one. He appears now to have changed his mind, and to have reverted to his original idea (“Classif. B.,”p. vii.), with this important modification, that he now places his Coraceiiformes after his Pico-Passeres, ending with Mimogypes (American Turkey Vultures), which lead from the Ground Hornbills (Bucorax), and are followed by the Sub-class Falconiformes. There is no doubt that this is a great gain in idea, and we are glad to see that Mr. Seebohm is modifying his first notion, that it is absolutely advisable to reduce the orders of birds to a small number of Sub-Classes. We are of opinion that a still further increase in the number of Orders will have to take place before the scheme works to the satisfaction of ornithologists. The Birds of the Japanese Empire. By Henry Seebohm. Pp. i.–xxiv., 1–386. (London: R. W. Porter, 1890.)