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grooves nearly filled with hairy feathers, with rather strong bristleg 

 at the base; oiilmen length of outer toe without claw, or one-half 

 length of tarsus. 



Wing about four times as long as tarsus, rounded, the first four 

 primaries being about the same length (the first slightly shorter than 

 the other three) with the fifth somewhat shorter. 



Tail equal to distance from wrist to tip of tertials, square at the 

 tip, the central feathers only very slightly shorter than the lateral. 



Tarsus one-quarter length of wing and equal to the middle toe 

 with claw. Hallux about length of inner toe, with a curved claw a 

 little less than its own length. 



Coloration, in only known species, slaty gray, mottled on the back 

 with black and usually washed with brownish, the tertials bordered 

 with brown and buff. Female, brown above, rump chestnut, lower 

 parts yellowish bufi^ obscurely streaked with brown. 



Tisa variabilis (Temminck)" has been placed by various authors in 

 the genera Einberiza, Euspiza, Zonotrichia, Hypocentor, and Friii- 

 gillaria, while Seebohm '^ suggests that it should be placed in the 

 genus Spizella. This bird shows a most remarkable superficial 

 resemblance to Phrygilus unicolor (D'Orbigny) of western South 

 America and to Junco imlcani (Boucard) of Costa Rica. In habits it 

 resembles Junco or Zonotrichia. 



Type of tlie genus. — Emheriza variahiUs Temminck. 



ARDEA CINEREA JOUYI Clark, new subspecies. 



Type.— Csit. No. 114429 U.S.N.M.; male, Seoul, Korea, July 4, 

 1883; P. L. Jouy, collector. 



Three specimens of this heron from Seoul, and a bird from the Tao 

 River, just west of Min-Cheo, Kansu, C^hina, difl'er from five speci- 

 mens from Europe in being somewhat lighter above, with the wing 

 coverts (particularly the distal lesser, the median, and the greater) 

 nuich lighter, almost ashy white. This character appears to be 

 constant as it holds good in all the specimens I have been able to 

 examine. This is interesting in furnishing a parallel to the light 

 eastern form of Crri/.s grus, known as Gnis grus lilfordi. 



PHASIANUS KARPOWI BUTURLINIc Clark, new subspecies. 



Type. — Cat. No. 114627 U.S.N.M.; male, Tsushima, Korean Straits, 

 May 21, 1885; P. L. Jouy, collector. 



Similar to Ph. Jc. Jcarpowi Buturlin from Korea, but mantle and 

 flanks paler, rump more grayish, tail (central rectrices) more olive and 

 less yellowish, and less heavily barred toward the tip, and superciliary 



o Temminck, PI. Col., Ill, 1835, pi. dlxxxiii, fig. 2, Emheriza rariabilis. 

 & Birds Jap. Emp., 1890, p. 139. 



c For Mr. Sergius A. Buturlin, of W('sciil)urg, Esthonia, Russia, in rccognitinu of liis 

 work on the genus rhasianiis. 



