366 EMEEEIZA 



Hojiro, Jap. 



# ad. (Japan). Differs from E. cioides in having the crown blackish 

 chestnut often marked with grey, the cheeks black, not chestnut, the upper 

 parts browner, and the chestnut breast-band much paler. Culmen 0'4, 

 wing 3-1, tail 2'9, tarsus 0'75 inch. The female very closely resembles 

 that of E. cioides, but has the under parts paler, and like that bird has 

 the ear-coverts dull chestnut-brown, but it generally lacks the dark malar 

 stripe, which is present in the female of E. cioides. 



Hal. Japan. 



In habits and note it does not appear to differ from E. cioides. 

 It places its nest either on the ground or else in a low bush, not 

 above four feet above the ground, constructing it of dry plant- 

 stems, and lining it with fine bents and hair. The eggs, 

 usually four in number, are deposited from the middle of April 

 to the middle of July, (two broods being apparently reared in 

 the season), and are very like those of E. cioides both in colour, 

 markings, and size. 



527. CHINESE MEADOW-BUNTING. 

 EMBERIZA TRISTRAMI. 



Emberiza tristrami, Swinhoe, P.Z.S. 1870, p. 441 ; David and Oust. Ois. 

 Chine, p. 326 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 545 j Tacz. F. 0. 

 Sib. 0. p. 575. 



(J ad. (China). Head and neck black ; a central line through the 

 crown, supercilium, and a line from the base of the lower mandible down 

 -each side of the neck, white ; upper parts, wings, and tail as in E. cioides, 

 but the wing-coverts are rather browner ; lower throat, breast, and sides of 

 the body pale sandy rufous ; rest of the under parts white ; bill brown, 

 yellowish below ; legs rufous flesh-coloured ; iris dark brown. Culmen 

 0'43, wing 2 '85, tail 2-3, tarsus, 0'7 inch. The female differs in having the 

 white streaks duller, the ear-coverts are pale brown with a few black 

 streaks ; throat white streaked with black on the sides ; the rufous on the 

 throat duller and streaked with brown. 



Hob. Eastern Siberia, Corea, occurring on passage in Northern 

 China and Manchuria ; wintering in southern and central 

 China. 



Inhabits the dense forests, and the male is said to have a 

 very sweet song. It breeds in Dauria, the Ussuri country, and 

 Corea, constructing a nest like that of E. citrinella, of plant- 

 stems and grass-bents lined with horsehair, which is placed in 



