30 FRINGILLIDJE. 



{I, h. S 2 a( l- s ^- Fokien, China. Gould Coll. 



i. J ad. sk. Shanghai. Gould Coll. 



k,l. d 2 ad. sk. Amoy, Nov. 18G6 (R. Hume Coll. 



Swinhoe). 

 m. Ad. st. China. J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Eophona personata. 



Coccothraustes personatus, Temm. 8f Schl. Faun. Jap., Aves, pi. lii. 



(1850) ; Whiteh/, Ibis, 1867, p. 201 ; David, N. Arch. Mas. vii. 



Bull. p. 11 (1871) ; Blakist. fy Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 245 ; iid. B. 



Japan, p. 175 (1882). 

 Hesperiphona per.-sonata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 506 (1850). 

 Eophona personata, Gould, B. Asia, v. pi. 18 (1851) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 88, no. 3294 (1870) ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 386 ; Dy- 



bowsld, J. f. O. 1876, p. 100 ; Tacz. Bull. Sue. Zool. France, i. p. 181 



(1876) ; David fy Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 346, pi. 91 (1877) ; Swinh. 



Ibis, 1877, p. 145; Blakist. # Pryer, B. Japan, p. 175 (1882); 



Jouy, Pi: U. S. Nat. Mm. vi. p. 295 (1883) ; Blakist. Amended 



List B. Japan, pp. 18, 6.3 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above pale drab or ashy grey, slightly 

 washed with drab-brown on the scapulars ; lesser wing-coverts 

 blackish, externally glossy steel-black ; median and greater coverts 

 glossy steel-black, the inner ones like the back, or black with a 

 median streak of drab-grey ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 black ; quills black, the primaries with a bar of white across them, 

 not seen on the outermost, and only found on the outer web of the 

 two innermost ; secondaries externally glossy steel-black, except 

 the innermost ones, which arc drab with a broken tinge like the 

 scapulars ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; centre tail-feathers 

 glossy blue-black, velvety black at the ends ; the remainder black, 

 externally glossy blue-black ; crown of head black as far as the 

 feathers round eye, and a bar down the fore part of the face black, 

 joining the chin, which is also black ; ear-coverts pale drab, sepa- 

 rated from the black of the face by a narrow line of whitish ; hinder 

 cheeks like ear-coverts ; throat white in the centre, the chin and 

 upper throat black ; sides of throat, sides of neck, fore neck, and 

 breast pale drab-grey ; abdomen whiter ; sides of body and flanks 

 pale drab-grey : thighs grey ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white ; quills below blackish, the white bar on 

 the primaries showing below : " bill yellow ; feet greyish reddish ; 

 iris reddish" (A. David); "iris light hazel" {II. Whitely). Total 

 length 8-5 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 4-45, tail 3-1, tarsus 0-9. 



Hob. Eastern Siberia, Japan, extending to Northern and Western 

 China. ' 



a. <3 ad. sk. Hakodadi, Nov. 2, 1864. Mr. Henry Whitely [C.]. 



b, c. d 2 ad - sk - Nagasaki, Oct. 29, 1879. F. Ringer, Esq. [P.]. 



d. 6 ad. sk. Nagasaki, Dec. 31, 1879. F. Ringer, Esq. [PJ. 



e. Ad. sk. Japan. Gould Coll. 



