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Length about 4°5 inches; beak in front *35, from rictus *52, 
depth at base °13, breadth at base *15; tarse ‘83; middle toe 
55, its claw ‘18; hind toe °35, its claw *22; wing 2°35, fourth 
and fifth quills equal, sixth a trifle shorter, first 1:1 shorter, second 
°35, third *6 ; tail 2:1, of twelve feathers, the penultimate °5 shorter 
than the eight centrals, which are equal, outer rectrix in the speci- 
men not full-grown. 
I have also an Emberiza that Mr. Fleming brought from Tientsin, 
which I registered before as HZ. stracheyi, Moore, but wrongly. I 
have since procured a specimen from the country near Amoy, shot 
in December 1867, which has rather a larger bill ; and I have a bird 
from Pére David, taken at Peking on the 12th May 1867, with a 
shorter and rather smaller bill. They are all three males. The 
Tientsin and Peking birds are in summer plumage, and have the 
whole head and throat black, with a broad line of white down the 
centre of the crown, a bread white eyebrow, and a broad white 
moustache ; on the under neck, below the black throat, a large white 
spot occurs ; and again below this comes the rufous pectoral band. 
The Amoy bird was shot in winter, but still shows much black on 
the throat. I suggest for the species the name 
EMBERIZA TRISTRAMI, Sp. nov. 
Crown black, dividing at the occiput, and running in a broad line 
down each side of nape; at the division on the occiput a large white 
spot occurs; and a little olive tips the central crown-feathers, sug- 
gesting a central streak, in immature plumage. Eyebrow and long 
moustache-streak white, with a splash of yellowish olive, which 
marks also the lores. Lores, under the eye, and ear-coverts 
brownish olive, a black line running from the hind corner of the eye 
round the ear-coverts. Throat yellowish brown, more or less marked 
with black. Upper parts light yellowish brown, with an olive tinge ; 
the black nape-lines change into deep rust-colour and continue to 
the centre of the back ; scapulars and lower back with broad centres 
to feathers black, flanked with rust-colour. Rump and upper tail- 
coverts bright rust-colour; the two central rectrices brownish 
ferruginous ; the fifth and fourth brown, rust-coloured on the outer 
web with light yellowish-brown edging; the third of somewhat 
lighter brown, with a small white spot on the inner web near the tip, 
which is also white ; the second, with half the inner web white, run- 
ning from half an inch from the base along the shaft to the tip; 
first or outermost feather white, except a brown mark along the outer 
web encroaching on the inner towards the tip; all the unmentioned 
parts of the last rectrices are brown. Wing-coverts blackish brown, 
the lesser broadly margined with light olive-brown, light ochreous at 
their tips; the greater edged broadly with brownish ochre, those 
covering the tertiaries being rust-colour, with black median mark ; 
winglet deep brown, with rusty edges; primaries hair-brown, the 
first quill edged with white, the next few with pale yellowish 
brown, gradually assuming a rust-colour towards the innermost 
