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other. The fifth clutch, brought to me on August 17, con- 

 tained four much incubated eggs intermediate in markings 

 between the finely speckled and the blotched sets. They 

 are thickly spotted, mottled, and stippled with brown over 

 the same violet-grey underlying marks. They measure from 

 078 x 0-64" to 0-82 x 0'65". 



The boy who sold these eggs to me picked out a specimen 

 of Emberiza fucata from a boxful of Buntings as being the 

 kind of bird which laid them. I have therefore little doubt 

 that I am correct in referring these five clutches to E. fucata. 

 I utterly failed either to find any nests myself or to induce 

 natives to shew me them in situ. 



The blotched eggs might be those of E. melanops, which, 

 Styau says, breeds on the Yangtze; but this is unlikely, as I 

 procured only one example of that species, as stated above, 

 and never saw another. 



88. Emberiza rustica Pall. 

 Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 354. 



A very common winter bird, leaving in March. It is 

 found in woods as well as in open country. 



89. Emberiza pusilla Pall. 

 Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 354. 



Passes in April and at the beginning of May. It does not 

 winter at Chinkiang, so far as I know. 



90. Emberiza cioides Tcmm. 



Emberiza castaneiceps Moore; Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 354. 



E. cioides Temm.; La Touche, Ibis, 1900, p. 36; LaTouchc 

 & llickett, Ibis, 1905, p. 45. 



This Bunting is a very common resident on the hills. 

 It builds in April, and the eggs are laid at the end of April or 

 in the beginning of May. The natives say that there are two 

 broods in a season. The nest is generally built low down in 

 a small pine. One, however, which I took, was placed right 

 at the top of a small pine fifteen feet high. The female 

 sits pretty closely, and on several occasions I have been able 

 to get quite a near view of her upon the eggs. While she 



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