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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 olive-yellow on the head and neck, some of the 

 feathers of the crown and hind neck being tipped with rufous-brown. 



"Adult female. Eather 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 slight 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. 



Embcriza sulphurata TEMMINCK and SCHLEGEL, Fauna Japonica, Aves 

 (1850), 100, pi. 60; SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1888), 12, 519; 

 GRANT, Ibis (1894), 517; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 240. 



Emberiza sulfurata MCGREGOR 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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