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Figures : Temminck and Schlegel^ Fauna Japonica, Aves, pi. 57 

 (male and female); Gould, Birds of Asia, v. pi. 9. 



The Grey-headed Bunting is a common winter visitor to the plains 

 near Yokohama, retiring to the mountains and to Yezzo to breed 

 (Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 242). There is an example in 

 the Swinhoe collection from Hakodadi (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1874, p. 161), 

 ■where it had been procured seventeen years previously by Dr. Hen- 

 derson (Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1858, p. 192). There 

 are nine examples in the Pryer collection from the neighbourhood of 

 Yokohama, and Mr. Ringer has obtained it at Nagasaki. 



Westward the range of this species extends, during the breeding- 

 season, to Eastern Siberia and Northern China, and in winter to 

 Southern China, Burma, and the plains of India. It is said to be a 

 resident in the North-west Himalayas. 



115, EMBERIZA SULPHURATA. 



(SIEBOLD'S BUNTING.) 



Emberiza sulphurata, Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, p. 100 

 (1847). 



Siebold's Bunting differs from all the other Buntings known to 

 occur in Japan by its combination of the two characters, chin, throat, 

 and breast unstreaked yellow, and forehead, crown, and nape unstreaked 

 olive-brown. 



Figures : Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, pi. 60. 



Siebold's Bunting is said to be a rare summer visitor to Yezzo 

 (Whitely, Ibis, 1867, p. 203), but to be very common in the more 

 southerly Japanese Islands. In the Pryer collection there are six 

 examples from Yokohama, and I have a seventh collected by 

 Mr. Heywood Jones on Fuji-yama. 



Siebold's Bunting is said to leave Japan in autumn, and to winter 

 in Formosa and Southern China. 



It is the commonest Bunting on Fuji-yama in summer, and builds 

 in the fork of a small bush, making its nest of grass, lined with 

 horsehair or the seed-stalks of moss (Jouy, Proc. United States Nat. 

 Mus. 1883, p. 299). 



Eggs in the Pryer collection closely resemble a common variety of 

 the eggs of the Garden- Warbler with dark spots. 



