The short-tailed (Puffinus tenuirostris) and Sooty (Puffinus griseus) Shearwaters were counted from the ferry boat during eleven voyages between Tokyo and Kushiro from December 1982 to March 1984. More than 90 percent of both shearwaters were observed during the voyages from April to June, during their spring migration.The appearence of Sooty Shearwaters reached a peak in early May along the Pacific coasts of northern Honshu, one month earlier than Short-tailed Shearwaters.Their early occurrence suggests that these Sooty Shearwaters were adult birds. During the autumn migration season both shearwaters were observed to be limited in the waters off Hokkaido.Only a few birds of both shearwaters were observed in mid summer and winter. The emaciated birds of both species were observed during the voyages in mid June, 1983, but most of them were Short-tailed Shearwaters and they were also observed in late September to early October in that year.

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Abstract. Two-barred Greenish Warblers Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus were observed and photographed on Hegura Island (375105.1̮N, 1365506.2̮E), Ishikawa Prefecture, on three years: from 24th to 25th May in 2000 (3 individuals), on 20th May in 2001 (1 individual) and from 24th to 25th May in 2005 (3 or more individuals). They were distinguished from similar species (the Arctic Warbler P. borealis, Green Leaf-warbler P. nitidus, Greenish Warbler P. trochiloides, Pale-legged Leaf-warbler P. tenellipes, Sakhalin Leaf-warbler P. borealoides and the Large-billed Leaf-warbler P. magnirostris) by di#er-ences in the shape of the supercilium and wing bars, in the color of the legs, bill, and tip of the outer tail feathers, in their call, and in the wing structure. I also summarized the records of P. plumbeitarsus in Japan based on the data from the literature and personal communication. Eleven records (15 individuals or more) were obtained from 13th September 1998 to 29th May 2009 and seven records (11 individuals or more) occurred in mid and late May in 1999 to 2009.