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52. Small Bunting. Emberiza pusilla, VaWas. 



Found in small flocks on the banks of canals and edges of 

 water-pools. M. Zill had two specimens of this bird alive in a 

 cage, which were more or less marked with white. 



53. Painted Bunting. Emberiza fucata, Pallas. 



54. Golden Bunting. Emberiza aureola, Pallas. 

 Common about the reedy herbage of the Yun-leang Canal. 



55. Sulphured Bunting. Emberiza sulphurata,Temm.kSch\. 

 Mr. Blyth assigns this to P. Bonaparte's genus Citrinella, but 



it is evidently the bird of the ' Fauna Japonica.' I send an Amoy 

 specimen. I have also seen it at Hongkong. 



56. Masked Bunting. Emberiza personata, Pallas. 

 Seen in August, but not afterwards. 



57. Frosted Bunting. Emberiza canescens, mihi. 

 I send an Amoy specimen of the male. 



58. Red and Yellow Bunting. Emberiza rutila, Pallas. 

 A fine specimen used to come down into my courtyard to feed 



at Peking. I loaded my gun with the smallest possible quantity 

 of powder, and shot in order not to make a noise, and so missed 

 him. This was the only one I saw of this handsome species. 



59. Ruddy Hammer. Emberiza ? 



The only specimen I saw and procured of this interesting 

 Bunting, I enclose. It appears to me closely allied to E. citri- 

 nella, L., and will very likely have been described by Pallas in his 

 ' Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat.,' a copy of which work I have not at hand. 



60. Lapland Lark-Bunting. Plectrophanes lapponicus. 

 My first acquaintance with this bird was on the 12th of 



November. It was a bitterly cold morning, the thermometer 

 much below freezing-point, wben I started at sunrise to explore 

 the neighbouring country, and to return at eight before the camp 

 broke up. We were within a day's march from Tientsin. My 

 fingers were quite numbed, so that I could scarcely use them to 

 pull the trigger, when I suddenly put up a brown lark-like bird 

 from a tuft of dried cotton-plant. It flew a little way and then 

 dropped again. I then observed that it had a peculiarly short 

 beak, though it walked like a lark. My first shot missed it ; yet 



