258 Omithology of Amoy. [No. 3, 



98. Emberiza oanescens, n. sp. [The Ibis, Yol. II, 62.] 



This occurs during winter, and is probably new. 



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

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

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

 each feather broadly margined with white and more or less 

 tinted with reddish-sienna. Wings blackisb-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, Gmelin. 



Common in winter ; a few breed in the neighbourhood. 



102. Emberiza fruticeti, Kittlitz ; sulphurata, Fauna Japón. Eare, 



103. Alauda eodivox, Swinhoe. 



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

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

 the Japanese Lark, A. japónica, 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 cióse comparison of the two birds is of 

 course required before any decisión 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 f avourite food, but it does not despise the large black 

 bush-ant. 



