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streaked with grey, the chest, which has no chestnut hand, 

 and the lesser wing-coverts, which are of a duller grey. 



91. Emberiza elegans Temm. 

 Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 355. 



A common winter bird. It leaves about the beginning of 

 April. 



92. Emberiza chrysophrys Pall. 

 Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 355. 



Four examples were obtained by the collectors on April 24 

 and 29 and May 5. I shot another, in what appears to be 

 the full breeding-plumage, on April 24, a couple of years 

 afterwards. 



The birds obtained by our men differ from the example 

 shot by me in having the median line down the centre of the 

 crown starting almost from the forehead, whereas in my bird 

 this begins only from the hinder part of the crown ; also in 

 my bird the yellow stripe above the eye starts just above the 

 eye, in the other birds it begins from the bill. The lores 

 of the first four birds have an admixture of yellow, and 

 the checks, instead of being pure black, are brownish, with 

 some yellow under the eye. 



93. Emberiza tristrami Swinhoe. 

 Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 354. 



Several specimens, all more or less in full breeding- 

 plumage, were shot by the collectors on May 3 and 5. This 

 Bunting appears to moult in N.W. Fohkien (see ' Ibis/ 1900, 

 p. 36). 



94. Emberiza aureola Pall. 

 Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 355. 



This Bunting arrives in immense numbers at the end 

 of August, many individuals remaining until the end of 

 October. In 1902 they appeared much earlier, as on 

 July 30 of that year 1 saw an adult male in full breeding- 

 dress and two females or young birds. The same year 

 a friend told me that he had seen, at the beginning of 

 August, flocks of Buntings, which I have no doubt were 



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