5-1. EMBERTZA. 497 



7. Emberiza elegans. 



Emberiza elegans, Temm. PL Col. iii. pi. 583 (1835) ; Gray, G<>n. 

 B. ii. p. 377 (1844); Temm. $ Schl. Faun. Jap., Aves, p. 93, 

 pi. 55 (1850); Bp. Consp.i. p. 464 (1850;; Radde, Reis. Sibir., 

 Vd(/. p. 165, pi. 5 (1863) ; Prjev. Vox). Ussuri, no. 49 (1867-69) ; 

 Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 388; Band, N. Arch. Mas. vii. Bull. p. 10 

 (1871); Dybowiki, J. f. O. 1875, p. 253; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, i. p. 176 (1876); Swinh. Ibis, 1877, p. 145; David $ 

 Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 322 (1877); Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, iii. 

 p. 137 (1878) ; Blakist. $ Pri/er, Ibis, 1878, p. 242 ; iid. B. Japan, 

 p. 169 (1882) ; Blakist. Amended List, p. 26 (1884). 



Emberiza elegautula, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 131, 1871, p. 338; 

 David $ Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 323 (1878). 



Citrinella elegantula, Gray, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 113, no. 7686 (1870). 



Citrinella elegans, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 113, no. 7685 (1870). 



Euspiza elegans, Gould, B. Asia, pi. 12 (1830). 



Adult male in breeding-plumarje. General colour above chestnut- 

 brown, mesially streaked with black on the mantle and back, the 

 feathers of wbich have sandy-white margins ; lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts uniform ashy grey, the latter slightly washed 

 with chestnut ; scapulars like tho back ; lesser wing-coverts ashy 

 grey ; median and greater coverts blackish, tipped with sandy buff, 

 whitish at the ends, forming a double wing-bar ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, edged with ashy brown, 

 greyer on the primaries, the secondaries externally pale rufous like 

 the greater coverts ; centre tail-feathers ashy, the remainder blackish, 

 edged with ashy brown, with a long wedge-shaped mark of white 

 on the inner web of the penultimate feather, the outer one being 

 almost entirely white, with an oblique black mark at the base of the 

 inner web, and a longitudinal dusky mark near the tip of the outer 

 one ; crown of head black and strongly crested, separated from the 

 nape (which is also black) by a circlet of pale yellow, which com- 

 mences above tho eye and encircles the occiput ; this yellow band 

 continued over the lores and across the forehead in a narrow white 

 band ; base of forehead, lores, feathers round the eye, cheeks, and 

 ear-coverts black, with a white band above the latter ; hinder neck 

 and sides of neck ashy grey, minutely mottled with black spots; 

 throat bright lemon-yellow, with a narrow black line across the base 

 of the chin ; on the fore neck and chest a large triangular patch of 

 black, separated from the yellow throat by a band of white, which 

 crosses the lower throat ; sides of chest and under surface of body 

 white, including the thighs and under tail-coverts ; sides of body 

 streaked with ferruginous, broader on the flanks, which are centred 

 with blackish ; axillarics and under wing-coverts white ; quills 

 dusky below, ashy whitish along the inner web: "bill black in the 

 breeding-season, brown in winter ; feet flesh-colour ; iris brown " 

 (A. David). Total length 5-6 inches, culmen 0"45, wing 3, tail 2 55, 

 tarsus 0*75. 



A peculiar irregularity of colouring is seen in the innermost 

 secondaries of both sexes in this species, where there is an indenta- 

 tion of the chestnut margin on the outer web, while the light base of 



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