the Birds of Chinkiang. G37 



and let me pass quite close to it without moving. I have 

 never seen another example at Chinkiang. On comparing 

 my specimen with the Reed-Buntings in the British Museum, 

 I found that it agreed exactly with the series of E. pyr- 

 rhulina from Japan. The birds in the British Museum 

 Collection labelled E. pyrrhuloides belong to a very large 

 species which has a range extending from Astrachan to 

 Yarkand. I therefore presume that Styan by E . pyrrhuloides 

 Pall, means the smaller Japanese form. The birds which he 

 mentions as having been obtained by me at Newchwang in 

 South Manchuria were, so far as I can remember, identical 

 with the Japanese species. 



99. Plectrophanes lapponicus (L.). 

 Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 356. 



On November 28 I bought three specimens of the 

 Lapland Bunting from some men who had them among 

 bunches of Larks, which they were hawking about the 

 streets. 



100. COTILE R1PARIA (L.) . 



Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 351; La Touche & Rickett, Ibis, 

 1905, p. 45. 

 Seen in May, July, and September. On September 27 

 I saw a great many examples flying along with H. nipalensis 

 and resting on the telegraph-wires. 



101. HlRUNDO GUTTURALIS Scop. 



Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 351. 

 The Eastern Chimney-Swallows are abundant in summer. 

 They arrive towards the 20th of March and leave in October. 

 They nest in native houses both in the town and the country, 

 and also in the verandahs of foreign houses and under the 

 caves of godowns on the British Concession. The eggs are 

 laid in May. Eleven eggs average 0*72x0"53" ; the largest 

 is 0-77 X 0-54", and the smallest 0'G9 x 0-53". The colour is 

 white, speckled, spotted, and sometimes streaked with dark 

 reddish brown and darkish purple over pale purple under- 

 lying spots. One abnormal egg has no apparent underlying 



