498 frixgillib.*:. 



the inner web, extending far up the latter leaves only an irregular 

 black mark towards the end o*' the feather. 



Adult male in whiter plumage. Much more rufous than in summer, 

 the whole of the plumage of the ixpper surface being suffused with 

 rufous, with which the feathers are tipped and edged, the black of 

 the head and face, as well as the throat-patch, being obscured by 

 reddish brown, as also is the grey of the hind neck and rump ; the 

 yellow ring on the head and the yellow throat duller and tipped 

 with tiny dusky spots ; edges to wing-coverts and quills more rufous 

 than in summer ; the white on tbe throat washed with brown. 



Adult female. Much duller in colour than the male and without 

 the ashy on the hind neck and lower back, which is chestnut, with 

 the usual black streaks and light margins to the feathers ; top of 

 head chestnut-rufous, with black bases to the feathers, the yellow 

 circlet round the occiput much less distinct than in the male, duller 

 and more saffron-yellow, as are also the cheeks and throat ; under 

 surface of body dull white, with a concealed chest-patch of black ; 

 ear-coverts dark chestnut-brown. Total length 5 inches, culnien 0-4, 

 wing 2-8, tail 2-55, tarsus 075. 



Young female . Differs from the adult female in having no yellow 

 on the coronal ring or on the cheeks and throat, which are pale 

 tawny buff. 



The type of E. elegantida, Swinhoe, is in Mr. Seebohm's collection, 

 and is apparently a young female of the present species, with streaks 

 on the chest and the eyebrow and throat pale sandy buff. The wing 

 only measures 2-55 inches, but this is probably due to some extent 

 to immaturity. 



Uab. Eastern Siberia and main island of Japan, extending into 

 China in winter as far west as Moupin ; accidental in Europe. 



a. c? ad. sk. Amoor Land, May. Dr. Lenz. 



b, c.<S 2 ad. sk. Pekin,N. China (/. W. Larking). Gould Coll. 

 d. <$ ad. sk. Japan. Goidd Coll. 



e,f. $ ad. sk. Nagasaki, Japan. F. Ringer, Esq. [P. 



g. c? ad. sk. Nagasaki, Dec. 9. F. Ringer, Esq. [P. 



h. 2 ad - sb - Nagasaki, Feb. 23. F. Ringer, Esq. [P.' 



8. Emberiza chrysophrys. 



Emberiza chrysophrys, Pall. Reis. Russ. Reichs, iii. Anhang, p. 698 

 (1776) ; id. Zoogr. Rvsso-Asiat. ii. p. 46, pi. 48. fig. 2 (1811) ; 

 Selys-Longch. Faun. Beige, p. 81, pi. 4 (1842) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. 

 p. 377 (1844); Bp. Consp. l. p. 464 (1850); Radde, Reis. Sibir., 

 Vbq. Taf. iv. figs. 1 a, 1 b, 1 c (1863) ; De la Font. Faune Luxemb. 

 p. 105 (1865) ; Bree, B. Eur. iii. pi. to p. 63 (1866); Deal, et 

 Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 319 (1867); Dresser, B. Eur. iv. p.' 193, 

 pi. 212 (1871); Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 176 (1876); 

 David §• Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 325 (1877) ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, iv. p. 137 (1879). 



Hypocentor chrysophrys, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1857, p. 162. 



Citrinella chrysophrys, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 113, no. 7692 (1870). 



Emberiza chlorophrys (err.), David, N. Arch. Mus. iii. Bull. p. 31 

 (1867). 



