1863.] MR. R. SWINHOE ON THE BIRDS OF CHINA. 301 



204. Emberiza rustica (Pall.); Bp. Consp. Av. p. 466. 



North China, the Amoor, and Japan. Not yet met with in South 

 China. 



205. Emberiza fucata (Pall.) ; Bp. Consp. Av. p. 464. 



Winters in South China. Found in summer in North China and 

 Japan. 



206. Emberiza stracheyi (Moore) ; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 9. 



Procured at Tientsin (Fleming), and at Kumaon (Strachey). 

 Notliing is known of its movements or distribution. 



207. Emberiza chrysophrys (Pall.) ; Bp. Consp. Av. p. 464. 



Siberia, and probably Western China. I procured a specimen near 

 Pekin in September. 



208. Emberiza canescens, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 62. 



Occurs in South China in winter only ; probably retires to North 

 China to breed. 



209. Emberiza pusilla (Pall.) ; Bp. Consp. Av. p. 464. 



Abundant in North China near Pekin, some visiting South China 

 in winter. Found also in Amoorland. 



210. Schcenicola passerina, var. /3, Pall. Zoogr. Ross. Asiat. 

 ii. 48, 49. 



Emberiza schceniclus, var. minor, Midd. Sib. Reise. 

 E. polaris, Midd. ? 



Amoorland and North Japan. It is doubtless also a North- Chinese 

 bird. 



211. Plectrophanes nivalis, L. 

 Visits North China in the cold weather. 



212. Centrophanes lapponica, L. 

 Abundant near Pekin in winter. 



Sturnid^. 



213. Sturnus vulgaris, L. 



I include this bird in my Chinese list on the authority of a spe- 

 cimen in the British Museum, said to have been brought by Mr. 

 Reeves from Canton. I have never met with the bird. 



214. Sturnus cineraceus, Temm. & Schleg. Faun. Jap. 



Summers in Japan and North China to the Amoor. Visits South 

 China in large flocks during winter. 



215. Sturnus sericeus, Gmel. 



A resident species from Canton to Shanghai, extending probably 



