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36. Masked Bunting. Emberiza personata, T. & S. 



A male of May. This is the first of this species that I have 

 handled ; and I recognize at once its distinctness from the 

 common winter Bunting of China. Out of forty-five speci- 

 mens of the last in my collection from Shanghai and south- 

 wards there is not one that can be assigned to this species. 

 The Chinese bird is the E. spodocephala, Pall., of North- 

 Eastern Asia. 



37. Painted Bunting. Emberiza fucata, VaW. 



A May male. This species is found all over South China 

 in winter. 



38. Japanese Meadow-Bunting. Emberiza ciopsis, Bp. 

 This is also the first I have seen of this species. It is at 



once to be distinguished from the resident form of the nor thorn 

 half of China by its larger size and black instead of chestnut 

 ear-coverts. I named the Chinese bird after Dr. Henry Ci- 

 glioli (see Ibis, 1867, p. 393) ; but I now find that it agrees 

 with Pallas^s description ofE. cia (Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat.), which 

 name, having been before applied to the European Meadow- 

 Bunting, Professor Brandt changed to E. cioides. This last, 

 then, will be the name of the Chinese bird, unless, indeed, Sco- 

 poli's name, E. barbata, applies to the same species. 



39. Country Bunting. Emberiza rustica, PaU. 



A fine male of this species in full breeding-plumage. 



40. Black-hooded Reed-Bunting. Schoenicolayesso'ensis, 

 Blakiston, n. sp. 



This is decidedly distinct from S. minor, i. e. S. pallasi, or 

 any other form of Reed-Bunting with which I am acquainted. 

 It was described by Blakiston originally under the above 

 name, which would have been published (Ibis, 1863, p. 99) 

 had I not told him that I recognized S. minor iu his much- 

 worn specimen. The skin he has now sent is that of a male 

 in fine plumage shot in April, and shows the upper parts tinted 

 with bright chestnut, and the central rectrices greyish brown. 

 It answers in other respects to Blakiston's description (/. cJ) . 

 From om' winter Chinese visitor it may be at once recognized 

 by its larger bill, by the black hood being confined to the cir- 



