36 Mr. J. D. D. La Touche on the 



115. EoPHONA PER80NATA (T. & S.). 



Obtained in winter and in April at Kuatuu. Bauu col- 

 lected a specimen at Pucheng (see P. Z. S. 1890, p. 345). 



116. Chrysomitris spinus (L.). 



One specimen was shot by our men at Kuatun in October 

 1896. 



117. Emberiza spodocephala Pall. 



One obtained at Kuatun on the 30th April, 1898. 



118. Emberiza fucata Pall. 



This Bunting breeds on the grasslands above Kuatuu. 

 We have not as yet been able to find the nest. 



119. Emberiza pusilla Pall. 



A few were shot in the tea-fields of the Upper Kuatun 

 Valley on the 2nd and 7tli April, 1898. 



120. Emberiza tristrami Swinhoe. 



Our men shot this bird at Kuatun in April 1897, and on 

 the 5th April, 1898, a specimen with the head in moult was 

 shot in the same locality. It was, with some others of its 

 kind, among the brushwood on the edge of a wood. 



121. Emberiza cioides Temm. 



This Bunting is common in the tea-fields of Upper Kuatun 

 during the breeding-season, but we have obtained only three 

 or four nests with eggs. The first of these, taken by our 

 men in May 1896, contained a single egg. The ownership of 

 this nest was not satisfactorily proved ; however, I am pretty 

 sure that the collectors did not make a mistake. The egg is 

 a rather short ovate in shape. It is dull greyish white, 

 scrawled round the large end with very dark brown, almost 

 black, hair-lines, with a spot of the same colour and a large 

 blotch of sooty brown about the middle of the egg. An 

 underlying, but very apparent, line of lilac-grey passes under 

 this blotch, partly encircling the egg round its centre, and 

 there are a few other underlying lines of the same lilac-grey, 

 with a smudge of the same colour also in the centre of the 

 egg. A few comma-like marks of blackish brown occur 



