522 FRINGTXLTDiE. 



Adult female. Bather browner than the male, and less distinctly 

 streaked with black ; wings and tail as in male, but the white on 

 outer tail-feathers not so developed ; head and neck greenish olive, 

 not green, washed with rufous-brown on the side of the crown ; 

 lores and a distinct eyebrow as well as eyelid dull yellow ; ear- 

 coverts brown, streaked with yellow shaft-lines ; cheeks dull yellow, 

 separated from throat by a broad malar line of blackish ; throat and 

 chest dull yellow with a slight olive tinge, spotted with dull trian- 

 gular marks ; breast and abdomen brighter sulphur-yellow, browner 

 on the flanks, which are streaked with black. 



Young male in first winter plumage. Is very like the adult 

 female, but is rather browner and more rufous on the wings and 

 tail ; the median and greater wing-coverts tipped with deep ochreous- 

 buff ; eyebrow and feathers below the eye ochreous ; cheeks striped 

 with ochreous yellow, followed by a broad malar stripe of blackish ; 

 throat and underparts generally pale yellow ; the fore neck, chest, 

 and sides of body washed with pale rufous ; the throat and chest 

 thickly marked with triangular spots of dusky brown ; the sides of 

 body very thickly streaked with black. 



The young males seem to assume the chin-spot very quickly, but 

 it is very often mixed with ashy. The specimen killed on the 20th 

 of October is already beginning to show a black spot on the chin. 



There seems to be very little difference between the summer and 

 winter plumages of this species. In China a slightly different race 

 occurs, with less black on the lores and region of the eye, these parts 

 being ashy grey, the chin and upper throat ashy grey, blackish 

 on the base of the former ; the throat, cheek-stripe, breast, and abdo- 

 men are sulphur-yellow, paler than in E. personata. There is also 

 much more white on the outer tail-feather, and the general size 

 of the bird is slightly smaller (wing 2-75 in.). Mr. Seebohm's col- 

 lection contains a male bird from Amoy obtained in March, and 

 a female obtained at Ningpo on the 27th of January, both birds 

 forming a part of the Swinhoe collection. 



Hah. Japan ; China. 



a. Imm. sk. Japan (ex Mus. Lugd.). Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. Japan. Zoological Society. 



c. tS ad. sk. Yokohama. Prof. Milne [C.J. 



d. $ ad. sk. Yokohama, Feb. 21, 1870 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(Capt. Conrad). [P.]. 



e. S imm. sk. Hakodadi, Oct. 21 *. H. Whitely [C.]. 

 /. S imm. sk. Hakodadi, Oct. 24 (H. W.) Gould Coll. 

 y,h,i,k. Ad.; Hakodadi (Henson). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



I. Juv. sk. [P.]. 



m. Ad. sk. Nagasaki. Purchased. 



n, o. Imm. sk. Nagasaki. F. Ringer, Esq. [P.], 



p, q, r. <3 ad. sk. Nagasaki, Dec. 24. F. Ringer, Esq. [P.J. 



21. Emberiza spodocephala. 



Emberiza spodi cephala, Pall, lieis. Buss. Beichs, iii. p. 098 (1776) ; 

 id. Zoogr. Bosso-Asiat. ii. p. 51 (1811) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 377 



* Cf. Blakiston, Amended List B. Japan, p. 60. 



