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117. EMBERIZA SPODOCEPHALA. 



(BLA.CK-FACED BUNTING.) 



Emberiza spodocephala, Pallas, Reiae Russ. Reicha, iii. p. 698 (177C). 



The male Black -faced Bunting differs from all the other Buntings 

 that are known to occur in Japan in having a uniform olive-grey 

 throat and breast. The female scarcely differs from that of Emberiza 

 personata, except in having much more white on the outer tail- 

 feathers. 



Figures : Middendorff, Sibirische Reise, ii. pi. 13. figs. 5-8. 



The claim of the Black-faced Bunting to be regarded as a Japanese 

 bird rests upon a single example, a male, with grey breast, shot by 

 Mr. Jouy in January near Tokio (Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 183). 



This species has a wide range, breeding in Siberia from the valley 

 of the Yenesay eastwards, and wintering in the eastern Himalayas 

 and China. 



118, EMBERIZA ELEGANS. 

 (TEMMINCK'S YELLOW-BROWED BUNTING.) 



Emberiza elegans, Temminck, Plancliea Colorizes, no. 583 (1835). 



Temminck's Yellow-browed Bunting differs from all other Bunt- 

 ings known to occur in Japan in having a conspicuous yellow stripe 

 over each eye, which is almost as bright in the female as in the 

 male. 



Figures : Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, pi. 55 ; 

 Gould, Birds of Asia, v, pi. 12. 



Temminck's Yellow-browed Bunting is by no means a common 

 bird in Japan. It has not hitherto been recorded from Yezzo, but 

 there is an example in the Paris Museum procured by I'Abbe Fauire 

 near Hakodadi, There are three examples in the Pryer collection 

 from Yokohama, and I have two others obtained by Mr. Ringer near 

 Nagasaki. 



It is possibly a resident in Japan, but to Manchuria and the valley 

 of the Amoor it is only a summer visitor, wintering in China. 



