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Japanese bird in Capt. Blakiston’s collection, which seems to be 
a true Woodlark. Ours are of the size and form of Alauda 
arvensis, L., but paler, without any sign of the greenish yellow 
with which English Larks are tinged in winter. Though both 
males, they have moreover no appearance of crests. I am in¬ 
clined to think that they will turn out to be distinct; but for the 
present I will follow the Russian ornithologists in classing the 
Peking species with the British bird. 
To the Larks I must now add a Shore-lark identical with 
Otocorys penicillata of Gould. 
59. The Ruddy Hammer is Emberiza pithyornis of Pallas 
(Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 37). 
To the Buntings I must add a bird, procured by Mr. Fleming, 
allied to Emberiza cioides , which answers entirely to a new 
species from Kumaon, described by Mr. Moore as E. stracheyi. In 
full plumage these birds are at once distinguishable by their 
black heads and chin, marked with a stripe of white over the 
crown, another along the eyebrow, and a third from the lower 
mandible to the nape. 
Among the Finches Mr. Whiteley has one I have not noted, 
the Carpodacus erythrinus, Meyer. 
72. Black Crow. 
This has wrongly been set down as Corvus japonicus. It is 
rather the Chinese representative of C. corone , L., which Mr. 
Gould has designated C. sinensis. I have since seen C. japonicus 
in Capt. Blakiston’s collection, from Japan. It has a strong bill, 
like a Raven. 
To the Crow group I may add a Chough. The only specimen 
of this bird in Mr. Fleming’s collection is immature, and has 
clipped wings. It will probably turn out to be the true Fregilus 
graculus, L., which, as I see from the East Indian Museum, also 
occurs in Java. 
78. Red-cheeked Starling. 
This was wrongly referred to Sturnus pyrrhogenys. Mr. Fle¬ 
ming’s bird is doubtless S. daiiricus, Pall., which also occurs in 
India and Java. 
