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outer ones yellow on the inner web ; bastard-wing black, yellow at 

 the base and on the outer web : primary-coverts black ; quills black, 

 tipped with hoary white, the inner secondaries broadly edged and 

 tipped with pale ashy, all golden yellow at the base, the shafts black 

 to the base ; upper tail-coverts asby grey ; centre tail-feathers 

 blackish, edged and tipped with ashy grey, the rest black for the 

 terminal half, edged with ashy grey, the basal half bright yellow ; 

 crown of head ashy grey, tinged with olive, more dusky on the base 

 of the forehead ; lores and eyelid dusky : cheeks and throat olive- 

 yellow, shaded with grey ; breast, sides of body, and flanks chocolate- 

 brown, washed with ashy ; centre of abdomen brighter yellow, whitish 

 towards the vent ; thighs ashy, washed with yellow ; under tail- 

 coverts bright yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillarics bright yel- 

 low ; quills below dusky, yellow along the inner webs. Total length 

 53 inches, culmen 0'5, wing 3*35, tail 1*9, tarsus O'Go. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in being much duller in 

 colour, and browner above, the head being brown like the back, and 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts also pale brown : wing-coverts like 

 the back ; the greater series black, externally edged with brown, and 

 with yellow near the base ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black ; 

 quills black, edged with brown, the inner secondaries very broadly 

 margined and tipped with pale brown, all but the latter quills bright 

 yellow at the base ; tail as in the male, but the yellow basal portion 

 more restricted ; sides of face brown, wth a slight tinge of olive- 

 yellow on the ear-coverts and above the eye ; cheeks dusky brown ; 

 throat ashy brown ; fore neck, breast, and sides of body chocolate- 

 brown, tinged with yellow, the abdomen and thighs whitish ; under 

 tail-coverts ashy white, washed with yellow; under wing- coverts, 

 axillaries, and inner lining of quills bright yellow. Total length 

 5*3 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 3, tail 1*7, tarsus 065. 



The adult male in winter plumage only differs from the summer 

 plumage in being browner, the grey portions of the plumage being 

 shaded with brown, and the quills tipped and edged with pale brown ; 

 the yellow on the bend of the wing also not so bright. 



Young males in first winter plumage resemble the old female, but 

 are more ashy on the head and hind neck, and show some dusky 

 streaks, especially on the latter ; there is a little more yellow on the 

 under surface than in the adult female. 

 Hab. Eastern Siberia, Japan, and China. 



a, b. 3 2 ad. sk. Amoor Land, May. Purchased. 



c, d. <$ 2 a d- sk. Yokohama, Japan. Prof. Milne [0.]. 



e. rf ad.sk. Yokohama, Japan, Feb. 12, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.], 



1870 (Capt. Conrad). 



f. d* ad. sk. Hakodadi, April 1, 1865 Gould Coll. 



(H. Whitely). 



ff. tJ imm. sk. Nagasaki. Capt. St. John [C.]. 



h. 5 ad. sk. Nagasaki, Dec. 17, 1876. F. Ringer, Esq. [P.]. 



hi. (J ad. sk. Nagasaki, Jan. 7, 1877. F. Ringer, Esq. [P.]. 



n. $ ad. sk. Nagasaki, Nov. 25, 1879. F. Ringer, Esq. [P.] 



o. c? ad. st. China. J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.], 



