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Martins, but they rarely, i£ ever^ survive the winter. In 

 lat. 63° N., however, there were a good many Sparrows. 



52. Uragus sibiricus (Pall.). 



We found the Siberian Rose-Finch common at Yeniseisk. 



53. Carpodacus erythrinus (Pall.). 



The Scarlet Grosbeak was also far more numerous than 

 formerly^ especially round Yeniseisk. 



55 A. LoxiA BiFAsciATA (C. L. Brchm). 



I am able to remove the brackets in the case oF the 

 Two-barred Crossbill, for I shot a male out of a small flock 

 of these birds which were in company with some Hawfinches 

 in the pine-forest close to Yeniseisk, and I bought a pair 

 of them alive in a cage. 



56. '^Emberiza ciTRiNELLA Liuu. (Plate X.) 

 At Yeniseisk I shot a Bunting which Mr. Dresser says is 

 tolerably closely related to the so-called Emberiza citrinellcC 

 var. brehmi of Homey er, which, however, has much less of 

 the chesnut-red on the throat than my bird. This chesnut- 

 throated form of E. citrinella was treated of by Mr. Zarudny 

 in his supplement to the ornithological fauna of the Oren- 

 burg Government, and his words have been translated by 

 Dr. Suschkin as follows : — " One of the very numerous 

 aberrations of Emberiza citrinella occurring in this country 

 is most interesting, as it reminds one so forcibly of Emberiza 

 leucucephala. It is virtually a type of individual variation 

 which I would like to name after Mr. Molesson, who procuied 

 the first specimen, . . . The head and throat are coloured as 

 in old males of Emberiza leucocephala, with the sole exception 

 that the white portions in that species are replaced in our 

 bird by bright yellow.^' 



A specimen was obtained near Orenburg late in May 1887, 

 and another very beautiful example in the same locality on 

 the 24th May, 1891 (old style). Besides these, Zarudny 

 procured about ten others which were less typical, and 

 connect this form with Homeyer^s Emberiza citi'inella var. 

 brehmi, Zarudny considers that this variety points^ to some 



