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Japanese bird in Capt. Blakiston^s collection, which seems to be 

 a true Woodlark. Ours are of the size and form of Alauda 

 arvensis, h., but paler, without any sign of the greenish yellow 

 with which English Larks are tinged in winter. Though both 

 males, they have moreover no appearance of crests, I am in- 

 clined to think that they will turn out to be distinct; but for the 

 present I will follow the Russian ornithologists in classing the 

 Peking species with the British bird. 



To the Larks I must now add a Shore-lark identical with 

 Otocorys penicillata of Gould, 



59, The Ruddy Hammer is Embernza pithyornis of Pallas 

 (Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p, 37), 



To the Buntings I must add a bird, procured by Mr, Fleming, 

 allied to Emheriza cioides, which answers entirely to a new 

 species from Kumaon, described by Mr, Moore as E. stracheyi. In 

 full plumage these birds are at once distinguishable by their 

 .black heads and chin, marked with a stripe of white over the 

 crown, another along the eyebrow, and a third from the lower 

 mandible to the nape. 



Among the Finches Mr, Whiteley has one I have not noted, 

 the Carpodacus erythrinus, Meyer, 



72. Black Crow. 



This has wrongly been set down as Corvus japonicus. It is 

 rather the Chinese representative of C. corone, L,, which Mr. 

 Gould has designated C sinensis. I have since seen C. japonicus 

 in Capt. Blakiston's collection, from Japan. It has a strong bill, 

 like a Raven. 



To the Crow group I may add a Chough. The only specimen 

 of this bird in Mr, Fleming's collection is immature, and has 

 clipped wings. It will probably turn out to be the true Freyilus 

 graculus, L., which, as I see from the East Indian Museum, also 

 occurs in Java, 



78, Red-cheeked Starling. 



This was wrongly referred to Sturnus pijrrhogenys. Mr. Fle- 

 ming's bird is doubtless B. dailricus, Pall., which also occurs in 

 India and Java. 



