450 Mr. R. Swiulioc on Birds from Hukodadi. 



distinguishable from Chinese examples. Blakiston gives the 

 length 7i to 8|, wing 3^ to 4i. 



79. Lanius superciliosus, L. 



Mr. Blakiston sends a male of this under the head of L. 

 hucephalus, noting that it seems larger. He gives the size of 

 that S2)ecics : — $ , length 7%, wing 3| ; ? , length 7\, wing 3i. 

 He writes of this last, " identified in 1862." From a reference 

 to ' The Ibis ' for that year, I imagine that both his sexes 

 must be in immature or female plumage, as he only had 

 a female when he wrote his paper " on the Ornithology of 

 Northern Japan '* (p. 317). This idea of mine seems to be 

 confirmed by the fact of his sending an adult male of 



80. Lanius Bucephalus, T. & S. 



Sent as a specimen of L. superciliosus. The size of this is 

 given as, length 7|, wing 3^. This is the first male individual 

 of this species that I have seen. 



81. Garrulus brandti, Eversm. 



A pair of these have come to hand with this note of mea- 

 surement — length 12j to 13|, wing 6f to 7^. 



82. Leucosticte brunneinucha (Brandt). 

 A pair. 



83. LoxiA albiventris, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 437. 



A pair of Crossbills with white bellies, just like the North- 

 Chinese bird. Blakiston gives as measurements from the flesh, 

 6| to 6j X 5 J to 5f, and adds, " I have one more specimen, 

 6| X 5|, ^ , October. The bill is stouter than in the example 

 I send you, but there are no other remarkable difierences.^^ 



84. EuspizA variabilis, T. & S. 



One specimen has come, with the note : — " Two just alike, 

 October cJ, 5| x 3.^^ This is the first I have seen of this 

 species, extraordinary for its whole-coloured outer rectrix. 

 Blakiston reports having a May specimen of Emberiza perso- 

 nata with a black face. This peculiarity is, I believe, the origin 

 of the name — just as E. melanops, Blyth, is a synonym for 

 the allied E. spodocephala, Pall., of Eastern Asia and China. 



