104 Mr. H. F. Witherby on Birds from 
EMBERIZA MELANOCEPHALA Scop. [W. 520.] 
Euspiza melanocephala (Scop.); [B. 260]. 
Seven specimens, dated from April 9 at Mal Amir to 
June 4 at Sakiz. 
EMBERIZA CINEREA SEMENOWI. 
Emberiza (Hypocentor) semenowit Sar., Orn. Jahrb. xv. 
p. 217. 
Emberiza citriniventris Sclater, Bull. B. O. C. xvi. p. 39 ; 
id. Ibis, 1906, p. 315, pl. xv. 
o. April 10, Mal Amir, alt. 4300 ft. 
*Plentiful among the oak-trees on the sides of the 
mountains.” —R. B. W. 
This bird agrees exactly with the type of E. citrin- . 
ventris Sclater from Syria, but it is evident from M: Sa- 
rudny’s description that these specimens must be referred 
to his #. semenowi. ‘Two other specimens (females) in the 
British Museum, from Bushire, are also of this form. In 
referring to one of these, Dr. Sharpe (‘ Ibis,’ 1886, p. 497) 
remarked that it was “apparently a young female of the 
previous year, as the whole under surface is pale yellow, 
with blackish spots on the throat.” 
This bird is evidently the Eastern representative of the 
typical EH. cinerea, from which it differs only in the breast 
and belly being yellow instead of ashy grey, and in the 
axillaries and under wing-coverts being also yellow instead. 
of white. 
(Since I wrote this, Dr. Sclater has published a correction 
of his description of this bird as an unnamed form. See 
otbis;7 L906, po Gl2:) 
Corvus CoRAX LAURENCE! Hume. 
Corvus corax L.; [B. 261; W. 518]. 
6. April 9, Mal Amir. 
“A few seen among the hills.’”—R. B. W. 
Wing 455 mm. 
This bird is browner than C. c. corax, smaller than 
C. c. tibetanus, and larger than C. c. umbrinus. 
