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Mr. J. D. D. La Touche on the 
115. Eophona personata (T. & S.). 
Obtained in winter and in April at Kuatun. Baun col¬ 
lected a specimen at Pucheng (see P. Z. S. 1890, p. 345). 
— 116. Chrysomitris spinus (L.). 
One specimen was shot by our men at Kuatun in October 
1896. 
117. Emberiza spodocephala Pall. 
One obtained at Kuatun on the 30th April, 1898. 
118. Emberiza fucata Pall. 
This Bunting breeds on the grasslands above Kuatun. 
We have not as yet been able to find the nest. 
119. Emberiza pusilla Pall. 
A few were shot in the tea-fields of the Upper Kuatun 
Valley on the 2nd and 7th April, 1898. 
-f- 120. Emberiza tristrami Swinhoe. 
Our men shot this bird at Kuatun in April 1897, and on 
the 5th April, 1898, a specimen with the head in moult was 
shot in the same locality. It was, with some others of its 
kind, among the brushwood on the edge of a wood. 
121. Emberiza cioides Temm. 
This Bunting is common in the tea-fields of Upper Kuatun 
during the breeding-season, but we have obtained only three 
or four nests with eggs. The first of these, taken by our 
men in May 1896, contained a single egg. The ownership of 
this nest was not satisfactorily proved ; however, I am pretty 
sure that the collectors did not make a mistake. The egg is 
a rather short ovate in shape. It is dull greyish white, 
scrawled round the large end with very dark brown, almost 
black, hair-lines, with a spot of the same colour and a large 
blotch of sooty brown about the middle of the egg. An 
underlying, but very apparent, line of lilac-grey passes under 
this blotch, partly encircling the egg round its centre, and 
there are a few other underlying lines of the same lilac-grey, 
with a smudge of the same colour also in the centre of the 
egg. A few comma-like marks of blackish brown occur 
