546 FRINGILLIDJ5. 



Emberiza tristrami, Swi/1/t. 1'. Z. S. 1870, p. 441, 1871, p. 388; id. 



Ibis, 1875, p. 122; Dyb. J.f. O. 1875, p. 252; Tacz. Bull. Soc. 



Zool. France, i. p. 170 (1876) ; David $ Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 326 



(1877) ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, iv. p. 138 (1879). 

 Emberiza quinquelineata, A. David, MSS. in Mus. Paris ; Dybowski, 



J.f. O. 1874, pp. 323, 335. 



Adult male. General colour above ashy olive-brown, the feathers 

 *of the mantle and upper back centred with black and washed with 

 chestnut ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts uniform pale 

 chestnut ; lesser wiDg-coverts uniform ashy olive ; median and 

 greater coverts dusky brown tipped with creamy buff, forming a 

 double wing-bar ; the inner greater coverts externally pale rufous ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts dusky brown, edged with ashy 

 olive ; quills dusky brown, externally edged with pale rufous, broader 

 on the secondaries, the innermost of which are pale rufous, with a 

 subterminal mark of dusky brown, with another dusky spot near 

 the base of the inner web ; centre tail-feathers reddish brown, all 

 the remainder dusky brown, edged with reddish brown, the outer 

 leather with an oblique mark of white extending across the inner 

 web ; the penultimate feather with an obsolete white mark ; head 

 black, with a white mark along the centre of the crown, followed 

 by a distinct superciliary line of white ; lores, feathers round eye, and 

 ear-coverts black ; cheeks white, forming a broad band ; throat 

 black ; hind neck and sides of neck ashy olive-brown ; fore neck 

 and chest rufous, with a tinge of chestnut ; breast and abdomen 

 white ; sides of body and flanks fulvescent or sandy buff, with 

 mesial streaks of chestnut ; thighs ashy brown ; under tail-coverts 

 white, the longer ones centred with ochreous brown at the ends ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white, those near the edge of the 

 wing dusky ; quills below dusky, ashy whitish along the inner edge : 

 "bill brown, the base of the lower mandible lighter : feet reddish 

 grey " (A. David) ; " iris dusky brown " (Dybowski). Total length 

 5-5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2 - 8, tail 2'2, tarsus 65. (Mus. 

 Henry Seebohm.) 



Adult male in winter plumage (type of species). Similar to the 

 summer plumage, but having the feathers of the throat and ear- 

 coverts obscured by sandy buff edges; the white bands on the 

 head also washed with sandy buff. Total length 5 inches, culmen 

 0*45, wing 2*75, tail 2*2, tarsus 065. (Mus. Henry Seebohm.) 



A specimen from Ningpo, shot in March, and considered by the 

 late Consul Swinhoe to be the adult female, does not differ from the 

 male. Total length 55 inches, culmen 045, wing 2-8, tail 2-25, 

 tarsus 0*7 (Mus. Henry Seebohm). I cannot help thinking that this 

 is a mistake, for Mr. Seebohm has a female, obtained in Eastern 

 Siberia by Dybowski in June, which differs from the adult male in 

 having the ear-coverts brown and the throat white, slightly washed 

 with rufous, and separated from the cheeks by a malar line of dusky 

 blackish. The general tone of coloration is paler. Total length 

 5-4 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2*6, tail 2*1, tarsus 0*7. 



A young female bird in Mr. Secbohm's collection is still paler than 



