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36. Masked Bunting. Emberizapersonata, T. & S. 
A male of May. This is the first of this species that I have 
handled; and I recognize at once its distinctness from the 
common winter Bunting of China. Out of forty-five speci¬ 
mens of the last in my collection from Shanghai and south¬ 
wards there is not one that can he assigned to this species. 
The Chinese bird is the E. spodocephala, Pall., of North- 
Eastern Asia. 
37. Painted Bunting. Emberiza fucata, Pall. If]? 
A May male. This species is found all over South China 
in winter. 
38. Japanese Meadow-Bunting. Emberiza ciopsis, Bp. 
This is also the first I have seen of this species. It is at 
once to he distinguished from the resident form of the northern 
half of China hy its larger size and black instead of chestnut 
ear-coverts. I named the Chinese bird after Dr. Henry Gi- 
glioli (see Ibis, 1867, p. 393); but I now find that it agrees 
with Pallas's description of E. cia (Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat.), which 
name, having been before applied to the European Meadow- 
Bunting, Professor Brandt changed to E. cioides. This last, 
then, will be the name of the Chinese bird, unless, indeed, Sco- 
poli's name, E. barbata, applies to the same species. 
39. Country Bunting. Emberiza rustica. Pall. /$'?$' 
A fine male of this species in full breeding-plumage. 
40. Black-hooded Reed-Bunting. Schoenicola yesso'ensis, 
Blakiston, n. sp. 
This is decidedly distinct from S. minor, i. e. S. pallasi, or 
any other form of Reed-Bunting with which I am acquainted. 
It was described by Blakiston originally under the above 
name, which would have been published (Ibis, 1863, p. 99) 
had I not told him that I recognized S. minor in his much- 
worn specimen. The skin he has now sent is that of a male 
in fine plumage shot in April, and shows the upper parts tinted 
with bright chestnut, and the central rectrices greyish brown. 
It answers in other respects to Blakiston's description (l. c .). 
From our winter Chinese visitor it may be at once recognized 
by its larger bill, by the black hood being confined to the cir- 
