258 Ornithology of Amoy. [No. 3, 



98. Emberiza ccmescens, n. sp. \_The Ibis, Vol. II, 62.] 

 This occurs during winter, and is probably new. 



Length 5 T V Wing 2 T V Tail 2\ and somewhat forked. Bill ^ 

 Head and neck sienna-gray ; crown, cheeks and throat, black- 

 ened, of a frosted appearance. Back and scapularies black, 

 each feather broadly margined with white and more or less 

 tinted with reddish-sienna. Wings blackish-brown, broadly 

 margined with sienna-white. Under-parts and rump white, 

 sienna-washed. Tail blackish-brown, having the two cen- 

 tral feathers broadly margined with white, the rest on each 

 side hardly at all ; the outer feathers white except a small 

 broad portion of the inner web, the 2nd broadly tipped with 

 the same. 



The female is deeply tinged with reddish-brown above and red- 

 dish-ochre beneath. 



99. Emberiza personata, Temminck. 



Our commonest winter Bunting. 



100. Emberiza aureola, Pallas. 



Met in flocks in autumn feeding on the ripening corn. 



101. Emberiza Lathami, G-melin. 



Common in winter ; a few breed in the neighbourhood. 



102. Emberiza fruticeti, Kittlitz ; sulpliurata, Fauna Japon. Bare. 



103. Alaucla coelivox, Swinhoe. 



This bird, which I have described under the above name in the 

 III vol. of Shanghai Asiatic Society's Journal, differs from 

 the Japanese Lark, A. japonica, Temminck, in being much 

 smaller. The largest specimen I have measured is one inch 

 shorter than the Japanese, though the wing is much the same 

 length. The inner toe is -^ longer than the outer instead 

 of being shorter. A close comparison of the two birds is of 

 course required before any decision can, with safety, be arrived 

 at, but it must not be forgotten that our's is a peculiarly 

 Southern Chinese Lark, not being found even so far north as 

 Shanghai. 

 104. Yunx torquilla, L. 



Common during winter. The \ inch red tree-ant appears to be 

 its most favourite food, but it does not despise the large black 

 bush-ant. 



