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in March but, as a rule, eggs are not found before May. The 

 nest is a light but tolerably strong structure of dry grass-bents 

 lined with finer bents, horse- or cattle-hair, and is placed on the 

 ground in a depression and usually at the foot of a bush. The 

 eggs 4 to 5 in number, resemble those of E. cia and have the 

 ground colour white with a violet tinge, the larger end sur- 

 rounded with a wreath of fine, dark brown, irregular lines, the 

 rest of the surface being unmarked or marked with a few 

 indistinct lines, some being in places widened so as to form a 

 thick dark patch. Some eggs resemble those of E. liortulana, 

 having thick spots and short streaks without having a distinct 

 wreath. In size they average about 0'87 by 0'61. 



The song of the Siberian Meadow-Bunting is said somewhat 

 to resemble that of E. schceniclus and E. miliaria, and to be 

 lower in tone than that of E. aureola. It consists only of two 

 strophes but is pleasing and melodious. 



Chinese specimens are as a rule rather smaller than those 

 from Siberia and have been separated subspecifically by some 

 ornithologists under the name E. castaneiceps Moore (P.Z.S. 1855, 

 p. 215) but I cannot after a careful examination of a large series 

 detect any constant difference in plumage. They are said to 

 lack the small black spot on the chin, but this is the case in 

 many Siberian specimens also. 



525. JANKOVSKI'S BUNTING. 

 EMBERIZA JANKOWSKII. 



EmlerizajanlcowsUi, Tacz. Ibis. 1888, p. 317, pi. 8 ; id. F. 0. Sib. 0. 

 p. 587. 



<$ ad. Differs from E. cioides, in having- the upper parts especially 

 the crown paler, the sides of the head and face white, and not chestnut- 

 red, the under parts paler and greyer, with a dull chestnut patch on the 

 middle of the abdomen, and no chestnut pectoral band. 



Hal. Sidemi, on the frontier of Corea and Chinese Manchuria. 

 I have never seen this Bunting, and only know of one specimen, 

 the type, which is in the Branicki collection at Warsaw. 



526. JAPANESE MEADOW-BUNTING. 

 EMBERIZA CIOPSIS. 



Emberiza ciopsis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 466 (1850) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 xii. p. 544 ; Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 131 ; E. cioides (nee. Brandt), 

 Temm. and Schlegel, Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 59, pi. 58. 



