132 PASSERES. 



It breeds in great abmulancc on Fuji-yama, making a nest on or 

 near tlic ground of dried grass and kavcs, lined \vitli fine rootlets 

 (Jouy, Proe. United States Nat. Mus. 1883, p. 298). Eggs in the 

 Pryer collection closely resemble those of Emheriza cia and those of 

 Emberiza cioides, being scrawled all over the larger end with fine 

 hair-like streaks. 



Bonaparte's Japanese Bunting is an island form of Brandt's 

 Bunting, Entbcriza cioides, and is possibly only subspecifically distinct 

 from it. The adult male differs from that of its continental ally in 

 havinir the car-coverts nearly black instead of russet-brown. The 

 female only differs from that of the continental species in having tlic 

 throat and under tail-coverts more suffused with buff. Intermediate 

 forms occur in Japan, but these may possibly be immature examples. 



Brandt's Buntiug is a resident in Eastern Siberia, and is the eastern 

 representative of the Meadow- Bunting, Emheriza cia, a perfectly 

 distinct species which ranges from Spain across Europe and Southern 

 Siberia as far east as Lake Saissan, whence I have an example col- 

 lected by General Prjcvalski. 



111. EMBERIZA YESSOENSIS. 

 (S WIN HOE'S JAPANESE BUNTING.) 



Schtrnicola yessoensis, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1874, p. IGl. 



Swinhoe's Japanese Bunting combines two characters, rump and 

 vpper tail-coverts uniform chest nnt-hvff and no trace of yelloiv on the 

 underpurts. None of the other Buntings which arc known to occur 

 in Japan possess both these characters except E. ciopsis, E.fucata, 

 and E. rustica. From the males of these three species and from 

 both sexes of the last mentioned, tlic entire absence of white on the 

 throat is a sufficient distinction. From the females of the two first- 

 mentioned species the fact that the nape is scarcely streaked (in 

 marked contrast to the conspicuously streaked crown) is a good 

 distinction. 



Figures: Secbohm, Ibis, 1879, pi. 1. fig. 2. 



Swinlioe's Japanese Bunting is ])cculiar to Japan, and cannot be a 

 very rare bird, as, in addition to the t\\)c, in tlic Swinhoe collection 

 obtained by Ciiptain Blakiston near llakodadi, tiierc are eleven 

 examples in the Pryer collection from the neighljourhood of Yoko- 

 liama. Two otlier examples from Yezzo are in the Blakiston collec- 



