486 FKIffGILLIDiE. 



Mr. Seebohm's collection contains two specimens marked as 

 females — one from Amoy (Swinhoe) without date, and the other 

 from Amoor-Land {M'tddendorff), also without date. The latter 

 bird has nearly as black a head as the adult male ; and it would 

 appear from this that the adult female is not very different from the 

 latter when she is in full plumage ; but doubtless the hen bird 

 never gets so pure black and white as the male, but retains more or 

 less of the sandy-rufous edgings on the back and wing-coverts. 



Hah. Siberia, eastwards from the valley of the Yenesai to Turkes- 

 tan, and extending into North China and Mongolia. 



a. 3 ad. sk. East Siberia, April 3. Dr. Lenz. 



3. Emberiza yessoensis. 



Emberiza, sp., Blakist, Ibis, 1862, p. 328. 

 Emberiza minor, Blakist. Ibis, 1863, p. 99. 

 Schcenicola yessoensis, Swinh. Ibis, 1874, p. 161 (ex Blakist. MSS.) ; 



Blakist. $ Pryer. Ibis, 1878, p. 243. 

 Emberiza yessoensis, Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 39, pi. i. fig. 2 ; Blakist. 



$ Pryer, B. Japan, p. 171 (1882; ; Blakist. Amended List B. 



Japan, pp. 17, 61 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above sandy rufous, uniform on the 

 hind neck, upper mantle, lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; 

 the mantle-feathers black, with chestnut margins and laterally 

 edged with creamy buff ; lesser wing-coverts slaty grey ; median 

 coverts chestnut, with black bases ; greater coverts blackish, ex- 

 ternally rufous, paler towards the ends ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills blackish, edged with rufous, paler on the margin 

 of the primaries, the innermost secondaries with a black patch near 

 the base of the outer web ; centre tail-feathers ashy brown, pale 

 rufous externally, the remainder black, with a wedge-shaped mark 

 of white on the third feather, more extended on the penultimate, 

 the outer feather white, excepting an oblique basal mark on the 

 inner web and a narrow dusky mark along the end of the outer 

 web ; crown of head and sides of face entirely black as well as the 

 throat, with a little whitish on the eyebrow and chin (probably the 

 remains of winter plumage) ; remainder of under surface creamy 

 white, purer white behind the ear-coverts ; sides of neck sandy 

 rufous ; abdomen purer white ; sides of body and flanks with a 

 few reddish shaft-streaks ; thighs sandy brown ; under tail-coverts 

 white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills below dusky, 

 ashy along the inner edge: "bill dark horn-colour; feet reddish 

 brown ; iris brown" (Blakiston). Total length 5*5 inches, culmen 

 0-5, wing 2 - 65, tail 2-55, tarsus 075. (Hits. H. Seebohm.) 



Adult male in winter plumage. More sandy buff than in summer, 

 especially on the underparts ; the head rufous-brown, with black 

 bases to the feathers, and a mesial streak as well as a broad eyebrow 

 of sandy buff ; the black ear-coverts obscured with rufous and the 

 black throat with sandy buff. (Mus. H. Seebohm.) 



