. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. No. 1.— The Birds of Korea1 By Oliver L. Austin, Jr. PLAN OF THE WORK2 This report on the birds of Korea is based on ray own collecting and field experiences there between November, 1945 and May, 1946, on a review of all the literature available, and on specimens and other data, much of it unpublished, in museums and private collections in Korea, Japan, and the United States. The geographical boundaries of the area are roughly those of the Korean peninsula and its contiguous minor islands southward from the Manchurian
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. No. 1.— The Birds of Korea1 By Oliver L. Austin, Jr. PLAN OF THE WORK2 This report on the birds of Korea is based on ray own collecting and field experiences there between November, 1945 and May, 1946, on a review of all the literature available, and on specimens and other data, much of it unpublished, in museums and private collections in Korea, Japan, and the United States. The geographical boundaries of the area are roughly those of the Korean peninsula and its contiguous minor islands southward from the Manchurian border. Though Quelpart and Dagelet Islands be- long to Korea politically, I have eliminated them from consideration here, partly because I have no new material from either, but mainly because they are, with Tsushima (politically Japanese) distinct and individual zoogeographical entities, which should be considered separately rather than as a part of any other land unit. Standardization of Korean place names and the adoption of a uniform Romanized spelling for them has not, until recently, been attempted. At least two, and sometimes three or more names are currently in use for the country itself and for each geographical entity within it. Since the liberation, the trend in most instances has been to recognize the Korean pronunciations instead of the sometimes better known Japanese, Chinese, or other variants. As my guide here I have followed the names and spellings adopted by the U. S. Army Map Service in its 1945 maps and terrain handbooks. I have numbered only forms of specific rank. Where more than one subspecies of a single species occur within the territory, they are con- sidered together conspecifically instead of being numbered separately. Only those species are numbered for which specimens have been re- corded from the area by competent authority; records of species not based on specimens collected are considered hypothetical and are 1 Published with the aid of a spe
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