350 EMBERIZA 



amongst the grass, or on a low bush, and is constructed of dry 

 bents and rootlets well lined with horsehair. The eggs, 4 to 5, 

 rarely 6 in number, are deposited early in June, and are greenish 

 grey clouded with darker grey or purplish grey and more or 

 less marked with blackish brown scratches and are subject to 

 considerable variation. In size they measure about O75 

 by 0-58. 



507. JAPANESE BUNTING. 

 EMBERIZA PERSONATA. 



Emleriza persona to, Temm. PI. col. iii. pi. 580 (1835) ; id. and Schlegel, 

 Faun. Jap. Aves, pi. 59s ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 521 ; 

 Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 567. 



Awoji, Jap. 



$ ad. (Japan), Differs from E. spodocepliala in having the throat 

 yellow sometimes marked with grey on the sides of the lower throat, and 

 not slaty olive as in that species. Culmen 0*4, wing 2'9, tail 2*5, tarsus 

 0'85 inch. The female resembles that of E. spodocepliala but is a trifle 

 larger and is more boldly streaked on the flanks. 



Hal. Japan, the Loo-Choo islands and the island of Saghalien, 

 but it does not appear to occur in China. 



Frequents the valleys near the rivers, and the plains and in 

 general habits resembles E. spodocepliala. It breeds numerously 

 on Fuji-yama, and its nest, which is constructed of dry grass 

 and rootlets, and lined with fine roots and horse-hair, is placed 

 on the ground, in a grass-tussock, or in a small pine-tree near 

 the ground. The eggs usually 4 in number are deposited from 

 the end of May to the early part of July, and resemble richly 

 marked varieties of those of E. hortulana. 



508. BLACK-FACED BUNTING 

 EMBERIZA SFODOCEPHALA. 



Emlerha spodocephala, Pall. Eeise Kuss. Keichs, iii. p. 698 (1776) ; 

 David and Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 329 ; Schrenck. Reis. etc. Amurl. 

 p. 142, Taf. xii. figs. 5-8 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 522 ; 

 Gates, F. Brit. Ind. Birds, ii. p. 260 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 563. 



ad. (Siberia). A broad band across the forehead, lores and the 

 point of the chin deep black ; crown, nape, and upper parts, together with 

 the whole neck and breast dull olive-green, on the hind-neck washed with 

 brown ; mantle washed with rufous and striped with black ; wings and 

 tail blackish brown, the quills and wing-coverts margined with rufous and 



