558 Mr. J. D. D. La Touche on the [Ibis, 



Of the above, the following are additions to the avifauna 

 of China : — 



Emberiza melanocephala. 

 Splienocercus sieboldi. 

 Sarcidiornis melanonota. 



Fiiligula rufina. 

 Lai"u3 glaucesceus. 

 affiuis. 



The following birds, previously doubtfully recorded, can 

 now be definitely added to the list of Chinese birds : — 

 Plegadis falcinellus. | Oidemia americana. 



Paradoxornis guttaticollis A. David. 



David & Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 203, pi. 64 ; Rickett & 

 La Touche, Ibis, 1897, p. 605. 



An egg from central Fohkien, in the collection of the 

 British Museum,, is a rather pointed oval, smooth, slightly 

 glossy, pure white, with a few minute rufous dots and 

 short irregular purplish-grey lines, chiefly at the large end. 

 It measures 22*5 x 17 mm. 



Stoparola melanops (Vig.). 



D. & O. p. 116; Rickett, Ibis, 1894, p. 221. 



A male, dated September 1913. This is the first 

 example recorded from Fohkien since the one mentioned 

 by Mr. Rickett as shot at Foochow in January. 



Juiico siemsseni Martens. 



La Touche, Ibis, 1913, p. 277, pi. vi. 



A second female example from Kuatun in north-west 

 Fohkien, dated February 1914. It is quite similar to the 

 one figured in ' The Ibis.^ 



Emberiza melanocephala Scop. 



A Bunting, sexed female by the collector and dated 

 September 1913, appears to be a female Black-headed 

 Bunting. I am informed that it was shot at Foochow 

 from a party of Emheriza aureola. 



Description. — Head and upper parts, surface of wings, 

 and tail pale sandy brown, finely streaked with brown 

 except on the sides of the head and neck. Inner surface 

 of wings and tail brown. Throat whitish ; breast and 



