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season ; the mantle is also washed with rufous like the inner secondaries. 
“The adult female in breeding plumage differs but little from the 
male, being duller in color and rather browner on the mantle, which is 
very broadly streaked with black; it is further distinguished by the 
absence of the black lores and chin spot. Length, 120; culmen, 11.4; 
wing, 70; tail, 53; tarsus, 18. 
“Young birds in winter plumage.—Only differ from the plumage of 
the adult female in being rather more olive-brown, with the refescent 
edges to the feathers of the mantle and inner secondaries broad and 
strongly pronounced; lower back and rump uniform ashy olive; the 
under surface of the body is clear yellow, with a tinge of saffron-color 
on the throat and chest.” (Sharpe.) 
The Japanese yellow bunting is a somewhat abundant but incon- 
spicuous migrant in the Philippine Islands. It was found in Calayan 
Island in November and in Tarlac Province, Luzon, in the month of 
March. It has also been taken in the vicinity of Manila. 
Family PLOCEIDA. 
Bill short and very stout, both deep and broad; culmen flat and 
slightly curved; outline of bill, viewed from above, kite-shaped ; nostrils 
small and round, pierced near the frontal feathers and situated nearer 
to the culmen than to the cutting edges; primaries ten. 
Subfamily VIDUIN 2. 
First primary narrow and pointed, shorter than primary-coverts. All 
the Philippine members of this subfamily are of small size and social 
habits. 
Genera. 
a. Forehead not blue; sides of breast not green. 
b%. Larger; width of bill at nostril little more than one-half the culmen from 
base; staal sliohthy wounded \--..2255.. 28. eee Padda (p. 687) 
b*, Smaller; width of bill at nostril about two-thirds of culmen from base; 
tail wedge-shaped, the central pair of rectrices pointed. 
Comlips eon central: recttices’ More VACUbe: 28:2 ccecce saarecmaraeeeneees Munia (p. 688) 
ec. Tips of central rectrices pointed but less acute............ Uroloncha (p. 691) 
a’. Forehead blue; sides of breast green....................-------—2:- Reichenowia (p. 692) 
Genus PADDA Reichenbach, 1850. 
Bill large, length of culmen about twice the width of upper mandible; 
tail nearly square; rectrices but slightly, if at all, pointed; legs and feet 
stout. Head and chin black; a large white patch covering face and ear- 
coverts ; young with under parts buff and the head without the black and 
white markings. > 
