53. EMBER1ZA. 545 



bright chestnut, with black bases, tipped with ashy fulvous ; bastard- 

 wiug and primary-coverts dusky brown, fringed with ashy ; quills 

 dusky brown, the primaries edged with ashy white, the secondaries 

 with bright chestnut ; centre tail-feathers bright chestnut, with 

 dusky centres, the remainder blackish, fringed externally with 

 brown, the two outer ones edged with white, the penultimate one 

 with a large wedge-shaped mark of white near the end of the inner 

 web, the outer feather almost entirely white, excepting an oblique 

 blackish mark at the base of the inner web, the shaft, and a small 

 dilatation of the latter near the end of the outer web ; head and 

 nape deep chestnut, washed with ashy grey on the base of the fore- 

 head ; a broad eyebrow of ashy white from the nostrils to the sides 

 of the nape ; lores, eyelid, and ear-coverts black, separated from 

 the cheeks, which are also black, by a broad white band below the 

 eye ; sides of neck bluish grey, whitish behind the black ear- 

 coverts ; throat ashy white ; remainder of under surface of body 

 pale cinnamon-rufous, paler on the breast, flanks, and under tail- 

 coverts ; abdomen isabellino ; the throat separated from the breast 

 by a narrow collar of black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy 

 white ; quills dusky below, ashy along the inner web : " bill bluish 

 horn-colour ; feet brownish flesh-colour ; iris dark hazel " [H. Whitely). 

 Total length 6 - 2 inches, culmen 045, wing 2-9, tail 2*7, tarsus 075. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in being paler in colour and 

 browner above, with broader black centres to the feathers of the 

 mantle and upper back ; crown ashy grey in the centre ; ear-coverts 

 chestnut-brown ; cheek-stripe blackish, but not so distinct as in the 

 male ; under surface of body paler than in the male, the throat ashy 

 whitish. Total length 5'7 inches, culmen 05, wing 2-7, tail 2 - 55, 

 tarsus 0-8. 



The female is very like that of E. cioides, and has the same chest- 

 nut ear-coverts, but it is not so white on the breast and abdomen. 



Hub. Japan. 



a. J ad. sk. Japan. Gould Coll. 



b,c. <S 2 ad. sk. Japan. India Museum. 



d,e. d 2 a d- sk. Yokohama, Japan. Prof. Milne [C.l. 



f,g. <$ ad. et juv. sk. Hakodadi, Oct. H. Whitely [C.j. 

 h. $ ad. sk. Hakodadi, April 15 (Zf. Gould Coll. 



Whitely). 



i. 3 ad. sk. Hakodadi, May 5 (H. Gould Coll. 



Whitely). 



k. 3 ad. sk. Nagasaki. Gould Coll. 



/, m. 3 ad. sk. Nagasaki. F. Ringer, Esq. 



n, o. 3 j P) 1- 2 a( l' Nagasaki, Nov. F. Ringer, Esq. 



sk. 



2 



2 ad. sk. Nagasaki, March. F 



u 



2 ad. sk. Nagasaki, Dec. F. Ringer, Esq. [P.]. 



~F. Ringer, Esq. [P.J. 



32. Eraberiza tristrami. 



Emberiza stracheyi (nee Moore), Sivinh. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 318, 1863, 

 p. 301 ; id. Ibis, 1865, p. t>5. 

 AOL. XII, 2 x 



