370 EMBERIZA 



532. JAPANESE REED-BUNTING. 

 EMBERIZA YESSOENSIS. 



Emberiza yessoensis (Swinhoe), Ibis, 1874, p. 161 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 39, pi. i. fig. 2 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 486 ; Seebohm, 

 B. Jap. Emp. p. 132. 



ad. (Japan). Head, neck, and throat black ; superciliuni, widening 

 towards the back, buffy white ; upper parts sandy rufous, the dorsal 

 feathers, inner secondaries, and wing-coverts marked with black and 

 margined with chestnut and creamy buff ; primaries blackish brown with 

 rufous buff margins ; middle rectrices warm sandy brown, the rest blackish 

 with much white on the outermost, dwindling to the third ; under 

 parts white, the flanks washed with sandy buff ; beak dark horn ; legs 

 reddish brown ; iris brown. Culmen 0'38, wing 2'5, tail 2*48, tarsus 

 0*72 inch. The female differs in being duller, the black on the crown and 

 sides of the head marked with brown, and the throat white marked with 

 black on the lower part. 



Hob. Japan. 



I do not find any particulars on record respecting the habits 

 of this Bunting, which is peculiar to Japan, nor are its eggs 

 known, but it breeds on Fuji-Yama. 



533. REED-BUNTING. 

 EMBERIZA SCHCENICLUS. 



Emberiza schceniclus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1 p. 311 (1766) ; Naum. iv. 

 p. 280, Taf. 105, figs. 1-4 ; Gould, B. of E. iii. pi. 183 ; id. B. 

 of Gt. Brit. iii. pi. 29 ; Hewitson, i. p. 187, pi. xlvii. fig. 1 ; 

 Newton, ii. p. 23 ; Dresser, iv. p. 241, pi. 221, pi. 222, fig. 1 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 480 ; Gates, F. Brit. Ind. Birds, 

 ii. p. 251 ; Saunders, p. 221 ; Lilford, iv. p. 18, pi. 10. 



Bruant des roseaux, French ; Emberiza dos canigos, Portug. ; 

 Molinero, Teuladi de canar, Span. ; Migliarino di palude, Ital. ; 

 Rohrammer, German ; Rietgors, Dutch ; Rorspurv, Dan. and 

 Norweg. ; Sdfsparf, Swed. ; Kaislasirltku, Finn.; Balotnaya 

 ovsyanka, Kuss. ; Cha-kucJikach, Turki. 



ad. (England). Head, nape, and throat deep black ; a white collar 

 passes round the hind neck and joins a white stripe on each side of the 

 throat ; upper parts black, the feathers margined with ochraceous and 

 bay, the wing-coverts and secondaries broadly margined with bay ; quills 

 blackish with narrow buff external margins ; rump iron grey darkly 

 streaked ; rectrices blackish, the two outer ones chiefly white ; under 



