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cloudj and tbe rustling of their tiny wings was distinctly- 

 heard by me a hundred yards off; they rose in a cupola- 

 shaped mass, and were as thick as bees in a swarm ; there 

 must have been 30,000 or 40;,000 birds on the wing at that 

 moment, the Wagtails forming, as I estimated, about a third 

 or fourth of the number. 



The boy was called away, and soon all the birds descended 

 before it was quite dark ; when settled, the Swallows kept up 

 an incessant simmering chirping for some time, but I could 

 not hear a Wagtail's note at all. 



The sight was a wonderful one ; at daylight the birds all 

 departed very quickly and quietly. 



XXXI. — Description d'une nouvelle Espece da Genre 

 Emberiza. Par L. Taczanowski. 



(Plate VIII.) 



Emberiza jankowskii, sp. nov. (Plate VIII.) 

 E. supra rufa, interscapulio maculis nigris latissimis vario ; 

 superciliis latis, fascia genali, gula coUoque antico supero 

 albis ; loris mystacibusque malaribus fusco-castaneis ; 

 area magna auriculari grisea ; lateribus colli cinereis ; 

 regione jugulari pectoreque toto pallide cinerascentibus ; 

 abdomine medio albicante, area mediana magna ob- 

 scure castanea ; lateribus pectoris rufis, hypochondriis 

 ochraceo-fulvis,subcaudalibus pallidioribus; alis nigrican- 

 tibus, tectricibus minoribus cinereo late limbatis, mediis 

 et majoribus pogonio externo rufo, apice albo ; remigibus 

 primariis albido, secundariis et tertiariis rufo margi- 

 natis ; cauda nigra, pogonio externo rectricum dimidio 

 basali vivide rufo, rectricibus lateralibus binis partim 

 albis. 

 ^ ad. Couleur generale des parties superieures du corps est 

 rousse, tirant un pen au rougeatre brique, h. soramet de la 

 tete distinctement plus obscur et varie d'un certain nombre 

 de stries noiratres, tres petites, terminales dans les plumes, les 

 plus distinctes sur le cervix ; le gris est dominant sur le devant 

 meme du front, les autres plumes du sommet de la tete tr^s 

 pen bordees d'une nuance pale ; les plumes de la nuque et du 



