LIG URINUS EOPHONA 



of the secondaries with the outer web ashy white, golden yellow at the 

 base and all the quills tipped with greyish white ; breast and sides 

 pale chocolate-brown washed with ashy grey ; middle of abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts bright yellow ; beak reddish white ; legs deep red- 

 dish grey ; iris chestnut. Culmen 0*45, wing 3*0, tail 1'67, tarsus 0'66 inch. 

 The female is much duller and browner in colour. 



Hob. The Amoor and and Ussuri countries and the island 

 of Askold in eastern Siberia ; Mongolia, China, Corea, and 

 Japan. 



In habits it appears to assimilate closely with L. chloris, but 

 its song is said to be inferior to that of that species. It places 

 its nest on trees, usually conifers, and deposits in May or June 

 3 to 5 eggs. A specimen was obtained near Copenhagen in 

 in 1893, but was probably an escaped cage bird. 



418. SUBSP. LlGURINUS KAWARAHIBA. 



Ligurinus kawardhiba (Temm. and Schlegel), Faun. Jap. Aves, pi. 48 ; 

 (Sharpe), Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 28 ; (Seebohm), B. Jap. Emp. 

 p. 127. 



Kawarahiwa, Jap. 



ad. Differs from L. sinicus merely in being somewhat larger in size 

 and duller in colour. Culmen 0'45, wing 3'25, tail 2'05, tarsus O75 inch. 



Hob. Japan. 



In habits and nidification it does not differ from L. sinicus 

 and indeed is scarcely separable, even subspecincally, from that 

 species. 



EOPHONA, Gould, 1851. 



419. JAPANESE GROSBEAK. 

 EOPHONA PERSONATA. 



Eophona personata (Temm. and Schlegel), Faun. Jap. Aves, pi. 52, 

 (1850) ; Gould, B. of Asia, v. pi. 18 ; David and Oust. Ois. Chine, 

 p. 346, pi. 91 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 30 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 

 O. p. 622. 



Ou-toung, Chinese. 



