568 BULLETIN 186, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



The male late in spring has the forehead, crown, nape, and sides 

 of the neck ashy gray, each feather with a black central streak (the 

 streaks less distinct on the nape and obsolescent on the sides of the 

 neck) ; the mantle dull chestnut-rufous, the feathers with broad black 

 central streaks ; the rump chestnut-rufous ; the upper tail coverts dull 

 grayish rufous, with deep brown central streaks; the lesser wing 

 coverts chestnut-rufous to form a shoulder patch, the remaining 

 feathers of the wing deep brown or black, edged along the outer web 

 with dull grayish rufous (the median and greater coverts narrowly 

 tipped paler to form two indistinct bands) ; the central pair of rectrices 

 dull grayish rufous with blackish along the shaft, the remaining pairs 

 blackish (the outermost largely white, the penultimate pair merely 

 tipped with the same color) ; the ear coverts chestnut, bordered below 

 by a white mustachial line ; the chin, throat, and breast white, with a 

 necklace of black streaks across the upper breast and continued along 

 the sides of the throat to the base of the bill ; a broad and indistinct 

 band of chestnut between the breast and abdomen (often broken in the 

 middle) ; the remaining underparts pale rufous (albescent on the 

 center of the abdomen), the feathers of the lower flanks with blackish 

 central streaks. The female is similar but rather paler and duller 

 and has the chestnut breast band merely indicated. In autumn the 

 ashy gray of the hood is concealed by dull chestnut-rufous tips to the 

 feathers ; these tips are gradually lost by abrasion. 



EMBERIZA AUREOLA ORNATA Shulpin 



Ussuri White-shouldered Bunting 



Emberiza aureola ornata Shulpin, Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Sci. URSS, vol. 28, 

 1927 [= 1928], p. 401 (mouth of the Suifun, environs of the village of 

 Tavritchanka, South Ussuri-land). 



Emberiza aureola, Gyldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 171 

 (listed) ; Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1916, p. 30 (Tha Chomphu) ; 

 Ibis, 1920, p. 458 ("Different parts of the country"). — Deignan, Journ. Siam 

 Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1936, p. 127 (Chiang Mai).— Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 Bull. 172, 1938, p. 536 (Phrae). 



The elegant white-shouldered bunting is a rather common winter 

 visitor to the lowlands of every one of the northern provinces ; it has 

 been found from October 13 (1936) at Thattafang to May 8 (1936) 

 at Chiang Rai. 



This species appears in October in flocks composed of hundreds of 

 individuals and, at first, keeps almost entirely to the flooded marshes 

 and the adjacent stands of grain but later, in smaller bands, spreads 

 across the ripening fields or gleans among the stubbles. At Chiang 

 Mai I have never noted it after mid-December, but, in moister dis- 

 tricts, it is numerous all through the cold weather and often accom- 



