134 MR. R. SWINHOE ON NEW CHINESE BIRDS. [Mar. 10, 
buff, a deep russet or maroon collar stretching across the hind neck. 
Wing-coverts blackish brown; the lesser broadly margined with 
russet buff, the greater on basal half with deep russet, on apical half 
with light buff. Winglet and primaries hair-brown, narrowly edged 
with brownish white, the secondaries broadly so, russet at base of 
edgings, increasing greatly on the tertiaries, which are nearly white, 
the brown being washed with chestnut and confined to the neigh- 
bourhood of the shafts. Lower back well tinged with buff. Upper 
tail-coverts whitey-brown, with blackish median streaks. Tail hair- 
brown, with light buff edgings to the feathers. Under parts pale 
russet buff, nearly white on the throat, deep russet or maroon on the 
sides of the breast adjoining the nuchal collar ; buff on the carpal joint 
and along the sides of the body. Under edges to quills buff-white. 
Female. Dingy grey on the head and hind neck, the dark specks 
on the crown smaller. Back darker and dingier. The nuchal collar 
and the lateral breast-spot missing. Eye-stripe brown instead of 
black; the white above and below the stripe less pronounced. 
Otherwise similar to the male, but not so bright. 
Bill long-conical and pointed, flesh-white, washed with blackish 
on the culmen and gonys, darker on the former. The male’s bill 
is darker than the female’s. Eyes black. Legs strong, deep dingy 
indigo-grey, including feet and claws. 
Length 4 inches; wing 2°25, first quill diminutive, second and 
third equal and longest, fourth a trifle shorter. Tail 1°75, of twelve 
feathers narrowing to a point at tips, and graduated inwardly or 
forked; centrals ‘25 shorter than outermost. Bill in frout °35, to 
gape ‘44; tarse ‘56; hind toe °28, its claw*25. 
Walking through the immense market-town of Sha-she, on the 
river below Ichang, I spied a pair of these little Penduline Tits in a 
cage on a shop counter. I was told that they were captured in the 
neighbourhood. I consider the discovery of this species most inte- 
resting, as affording a case analogous to that of Cyanopica, which 
appears restricted to Spain and Portugal in Europe and then turns up 
in China about the Yangtsze and northwards, extending to Japan, in a 
somewhat modified form. The Penduline Tit occurs only in South 
Europe; and we find it again rather changed on the banks of the 
Yangtsze 850 miles from the sea. 
Aigithalus pendulinus of Europe has a great deal shorter and 
smaller bill than the Chinese bird, the black cheek-stripe is more ex- 
tended, and the white eyebrow and moustache are wanting. The 
deep russet spreads over the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts. 
6. EMBERIZA ELEGANTULA, Sp. Nov. 
Female allied to that of #. elegans, Temm., but smaller, with less- 
distinct crest, longer and more Luspiza-like bill, with the streaks and 
spots darker and more decided. 
Upper parts brownish grey, the feathers on the crown with deep- 
brown median streaks ; on the hind neck marks of chesnut-brown ; 
on the back and scapulars broad median black streaks, changing 
sidewards on each feather into chesnut-brown. Eyebrow yellowish 
white, becoming richer and extending into a bright yellow band across 
