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quills dusky below, ashy whitish along the edge of the inner web. ‘Bill 
brown, with the point blackish and the lower mandible whitish; feet 
flesh-color ; iris chestnut-brown.’ (David.) Length, 120; culmen, 11.4; 
wing, 68.5; tail, 54.6; tarsus, 19. 
“Adult male in winter plumage.—Only differs from the summer plum- 
age in being more oliye-yellow on the head and neck, some of the — 
feathers of the crown and hind neck being tipped with rufous-brown. 
“Adult female-—Rather browner on the head than the male and not 
so ashy; no black on the face or chin; ear-coverts brown, streaked with 
yellowish shaft-lines; lores, eyelid, and an indistinct eyebrow yellowish 
buff; a broad cheek-stripe of pale sulphur-yellow widening out on the 
side of the neck; throat and under surface of body pale sulphur-yellow, 
olive greenish on the throat and fore neck; a distinct malar streak of 
dusky blackish spots; sides of body and flanks reddish brown, streaked 
with black; lower abdomen and under tail-coverts yellowish white. 
“Old females in the breeding season become a little more ashy on the 
head and neck. Young birds are always browner than the adults above, 
and have a number of dusky spots on the throat; otherwise they greatly 
resemble the old females. Young females (Mus. H. Seebohm) are pale 
brown above, with less developed black centers on the mantle; the head 
brown, washed with rufous and streaked with black; under surface dull 
white, with only a shght tinge of sulphur-yellow on the abdomen and 
axillars; the throat pale olive-yellow, browner on the fore neck and chest, 
with brown shaft-lines. Young males in winter plumage resemble the 
adult female, but seem to have more dusky spots on the throat, which 
commences to become dusky olive in April, with blackish on the chin. 
Some (probably of an earlier brood) have dusky olive throats in No- 
vember, but always show dusky spots.” (Sharpe.) 
The only known Philippine specimen of the black-faced bunting was 
_ collected by Whitehead. 
699. EMBERIZA SULPHURATA Temminck and Schlegel. 
JAPANESE YELLOW BUNTING, 
Emberiza sulphurata TEMMINCK and SCHLEGEL, Fauna Japonica, Aves 
(1850), 100, pl. 60; SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1888), 12, 519; 
GRANT, Ibis (1894), 517; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 240. 
Emberiza sulfurata McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 104. 
Calayan (McGregor) ; Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor, Porter). Japan, northern 
and central China; Formosa in winter. 
Male (Calayan Island, November, 1903).—-Top and sides of head and 
neck dusky olive-green ; eyelids white: lores, subocular region, and malar 
stripe dusky; mantle dusky olive-green, heavily striped with black and 
somewhat washed with cinnamon; lower back and rump nearly uniform 
olive-gray ; tail-coverts dark umber with olivaceous edges; under parts 
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