334 Mr. R. Swinhoe’s Notes on Ornithology 
52. Small Bunting. Emberiza pusilla, Pallas. 
Found in small flocks on the banks of canals and edges of 
water-pools. M. Zill had two specimens of this bird alive in a 
cage, which were more or less marked with white. 
53. Painted Bunting. Emberiza fucata, Pallas. 
54. Golden Bunting. Emberiza aureola, Pallas. 
Common about the reedy herbage of the Yun-leang Canal. 
55. Sulphured Bunting. Emberiza sulphurata, Temm.&Schl. 
Mr. Blyth assigns this to P. Bonaparte’s genus Citrinella, but 
it is evidently the bird of the ‘ Fauna Japonica.’ I send an Amoy 
specimen. I have also seen it at Hongkong. 
56. Masked Bunting. Emberiza personata, Pallas. 
Seen in August, but not afterwards. 
57. Frosted Bunting. Emberiza canescens, mihi. 
I send an Amoy specimen of the male. 
58. Red and Yellow Bunting. Emberiza rutila , Pallas. 
A fine specimen used to come down into my courtyard to feed 
at Peking. I loaded my gun with the smallest possible quantity 
of powder, and shot in order not to make a noise, and so missed 
him. This was the only one I saw of this handsome species. 
59. Ruddy Hammer. Emberiza -? - 
The only specimen I saw and procured of this interesting 
Bunting, I enclose. It appears to me closely allied to E. citri¬ 
nella, L., and will very likely have been described by Pallas in his 
f Zoogr. Rqsso-Asiat./ a copy of which work I have not at hand. 
60. Lapland Lark-Bunting. Plectrophanes lapponicus. 
My first acquaintance with this bird was on the 12th of 
November. It was a bitterly cold morning, the thermometer 
much below freezing-point, when I started at sunrise to explore 
the neighbouring country, and to return at eight before the camp 
broke up. We were within a day’s march from Tientsin. My 
fingers were quite numbed, so that I could scarcely use them to 
pull the trigger, when I suddenly put up a brown lark-like bird 
from a tuft of dried cotton-plant. It flew a little way and then 
dropped again. I then observed that it had a peculiarly short 
beak, though it walked like a lark. My first shot missed it; yet 
