542 FRING1LLID.E. 



28. Emberiza godiewskii. (Plate XII.) 



Einberiza gigliolii (nee Swinh.), Di/bowski, J.f. 0. 1873, p. 88. 

 Emberiza godiewskii, Tacz. J. f. O. 1874, p. 330 ; id. Bull. Sue. Zool. 



France, i. p. 175 (1876) ; Prjev. in Dawson Roivley's Orn. Misc. 



ii. p. 308 (1877). 



Adult male. General colour above rufescent, with broad black 

 centres and ashy-fuhous margins to the featbers of the mantle and 

 tapper back ; tbe scapulars conspicuously chestnut, tbe lower oues 

 with black centres ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 cinnamon-rufous, with ashy edges to tbe feathers, especially the 

 upper tail-coverts, the long ones of which have black centres ; lesser 

 wing-coverts bluish grey ; median series black, tipped with creamy 

 white, forming a wing-bar ; greater coverts black, externally rufous- 

 brown, whitish towards the end ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 black, fringed with ashy ; quills blackish, edged with rufous-brown, 

 broader on the inner secondaries, which are pale rufous, with black 

 centres like the inner greater coverts and centre tail-feathers ; 

 remainder of tail-feathers black, with a large wedge-shaped mark of 

 white on the two outer feathers, larger on the outer one, which is 

 also externally edged with white ; head and neck bluish grey, the 

 latter washed with chestnut-brown ; on each side of the crown a 

 band of deep chestnut-brown ; a broad eyebrow of bluish grey ; 

 lores black ; eyelid ashy white ; sides of face and ear-coverts bluish 

 ashy, with a broad streak of chestnut-brown along the upper margin, 

 as well as a band behind the ear-coverts, joining a cheek-stripe of 

 blackish, washed with chestnut ; cheeks, throat, fore neck, and si les 

 of neck bluish grey ; remainder of under surface of body pale 

 cinnamon, paler iu the centre of the abdomeu ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts ashy white, with dusky bases ; quills dusky below, ashy 

 along the inner web. Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 

 3-3, tail 3*15, tarsus 0-7. 



Hah. Eastern Siberia, extending to Alashan and Kansu, Yarkand, 

 Turkestan, and Northern Cashmere. 



a. Ad. st. Siberia. Purchased. 



b. <$ ad. sk. Kultuk, Lake Baikal, Oct. 22. Purchased. 



c. el. <f ad. et juv. Kirog Valley, March 24, 1874 Hume Coll. 

 sk. (J. Biddulph). 



29. Emberiza cioides. 



Emberiza cia (nee L.), Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 39 (1811). 

 Emberiza cioides, Brandt, Bud. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. i. p. 363 



(1843) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 466 (1850) ; Middend. SiMr. lids. p. 280 



(1851 ) ; Schrenek, Beis. Amurl. p. 140 (1850) ; Radde, Reis. Sibir. 



p. 176 (1863); Vian, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1871-72, p. 38; 



Dybowski, J.f. O. 1873, p. 87; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 38, 1880, 



p. 188. 

 Buscarla cioides, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1857, p. 162. 

 Citrinella cioides, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 114, no. 7702 (1870). 



Adult male in Jreeding-jplumage. General colour above chestnut. 



