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I. IJIMA. 



21. Emberiza ciopsis, Bp- 



Hnjiro. 



? Emberiza castaneiceps, Mooio. 



Cliosen-Hôjiro. 



E. caslaiii'iceps, origiiitilly known from China, also occurs in 

 Corea (Gigiioli and Salvadori, I'ruc. Zuol. Soc, 1887, p. 582 ; 

 Taczanow^ki, ibid., 1888, p. iGb.) On the main islands of Japan it is 

 represented by E. ciop.'^is, which, so far as I am aware, differs from the 

 Chinese form only in the males having the ear-coverts hlack (simimer 

 plumage), or almost black with a slight suffusion of russet (winter 

 plumage), instead of deep chestnut always. In what points the females 

 of the tw(j species diifer, I do not know. 



Messrs. Xa.miye and Tsuchida collected (jn Tsushima six speci- 

 mens of lUuiting, all in winter plumage. The following is the list : 



Of tlie fi\e males, one (No. 1756) was presented to Canon 

 Tristram, so tliat 1 have now four males before me. ]\Iinute com- 

 parison of these witli winter specimens of E. ciopsis collected on Hondo, 

 shows a, close agreement in all respects exce[)t in the colour of tlie 

 ear-coverts. Namely, two specimens (Nos. 1753 and 1751) have the 



