194 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 



EMBERIZA PUSILLA Pallas. 



Thirty-nine specimens, both sexes, Ichang, Yangchiatamiao, Kwangpow, 

 Changyanghsien, Hsienshanhsien, Kunganhsien, and Mafuling, Hupeh, and 

 Foochow, Omeihsien, Kiating, Hochianghsien, Luluping, Wushanhsien, and 

 Chiangchinghsien, Szechwan, winter, and spring. 



EMBERIZA RUSTICA Pallas. 



Twenty-four specimens, Ichang, Hsienshanhsien, Kunganhsien, and Chang- 

 yanghsien, Hupeh, winter, and early spring. 



EMBERIZA FUCATA FUCATA Pallas. 

 One female, Ichang, Hupeh, September 29, 1907. 



EMBERIZA ELEGANS Temminck. 



Thirty-two specimens, Hsienshanhsien, Changyanghsien, Kwangpow, Ho- 

 chiaping, Tawan, Mafuling, Hsienshan, and Wantaoshan, Hupeh, and Kiating, 

 Washan, and Luluping, Szechwan. 



Most of these specimens were taken in winter and early spring, but in 1907, 

 at Mafuling, Wantaoshan, and Hsienshan, examples in worn plumage were 

 secured throughout May and as late as June 5, and again in 1908 the species was 

 found at Washan from May 23 to June 8; these dates indicate that the birds 

 were breeding. 



EMBERIZA CHRYSOPHRYS Pallas. 



Five males, Ichang, Hsienshanhsien, and Changyanghsien, October, De- 

 cember, and January. 



EMBERIZA AUREOLA Pallas. 



Seven specimens, both sexes, Ichang, Hupeh, all taken in autumn except 

 one adult male taken April 30. 



EMBERIZA SPODOCEPHALA SPODOCEPHALA Pallas. 



This form winters, perhaps sparingly, in the region visited, and the series 

 collected contains some undoubted adult males; some adult females, and young 

 birds of both sexes in winter plumage we are unable satisfactorily to distinguish, 

 but as the majority of adult males belong to the resident breeding subspecies, 

 it is probable that the majority of females and young also belong there. 



