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same place in September. The latter author, in his most recent list of the " Birds of China " 

 (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 388), gives the localities of the present species as "North China; Szechuen." 

 The latter habitat has, we believe, never been mentioned before. 



Its admission into the European avifauna rests apparently on two specimens, obtained 

 respectively near Lille and in Luxembourg. In his ' Faune Beige,' Baron de Selys-Longchamps 

 says : — " I include this species on the authority of an individual which M. Degland has examined, 

 and which is stated to have been captured in a net behind the citadel of Lille." M. A. De 

 La Fontaine also writes, in his ' Faune du Pays de Luxembourg' : — " M. Mouhimont tells me that 

 in the spring of 1863 he observed two of these Buntings, of which he killed one, and more 

 recently he has again seen the species. He says that they are not shy birds, but will let any one 

 approach closely, and are easy to kill." 



Dr. G. Radde is the only person who has given any detailed account of the species, and we 

 translate as follows from his notes: — "On the loth (25th) of August, 1856, I saw this Bunting 

 in small flocks, in company with Emberiza pusilla, in the evening, in the vegetable garden at 

 Kulussutajefsk, on the Tarei-Nor. They often uttered their 'zipping' call-note, which is softer 

 and shriller than that of the other Buntings. On the 17th September, 1859, I found this bird 

 near the Tunkinskish fortress, in the locality called Saktui, where I observed four specimens in 

 the willow bushes." Its mode of nidification is as yet quite unknown. 



The descriptions and figures in the Plate are taken from a pair of birds in our collection, 

 received in exchange from the S. Petersburg Museum. They were both procured by Eadde 

 on his expedition, the male being shot at Kulussutajefsk, on the 14th of August, 1856, and the 

 female at the same place, on the 3rd of September, 1856. The colours of the soft parts are 

 derived from Radde's notes taken from the fresh specimens. 



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