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Show 134 MR. R. SWINHOE ON NEW CHINESE BIRDS. [Mar. 10, buff, a deep russet or maroon collar stretching across the hind neck. Wing-coverts blackish brown ; the lesser broadly margined with russet buff, the greater on basal half with deep russet, on apical half with light buff. Winglet and primaries hair-brown, narrowly edged with brownish white, the secondaries broadly so, russet at base of edgings, increasing greatly on the tertiaries, which are nearly white, the brown being washed with chestnut and confined to the neighbourhood of the shafts. Lower back well tinged with buff. Upper tail-coverts whitey-brown, with blackish median streaks. Tail hair-brown, with light buff edgings to the feathers. Under parts pale russet buff, nearly white on the throat, deep russet or maroon on the sides of the breast adjoining the nuchal collar ; buff on the carpal joint and along the sides of the body. Under edges to quills buff-white. Female. Dingy grey on the head and hind neck, the dark specks on the crown smaller. Back darker and dingier. The nuchal collar and the lateral breast-spot missing. Eye-stripe brown instead of black; the white above and below the stripe less pronounced. Otherwise similar to the male, but not so bright. Bill long-conical and pointed, flesh-white, washed with blackish on the culmen and gonys, darker on the former. The male's bill is darker than the female's. Eyes black. Legs strong, deep dingy indigo-grey, including feet and claws. Length 4 inches ; wing 2*25, first quill diminutive, second and third equal and longest, fourth a trifle shorter. Tail 1 *75, of twelve feathers narrowing to a point at tips, and graduated inwardly or forked; centrals *25 shorter than outermost. Bill in front *35, to gape *44 ; tarse *56 ; hind toe *28, its claw *25. Walking through the immense market-town of Sha-she, on the river below Ichang, I spied a pair of these little Penduline Tits in a cage on a shop counter. I was told that they were captured in the neighbourhood. I consider the discovery of this species most interesting, as affording a case analogous to that of Cyanopica, which appears restricted to Spain and Portugal in Europe and then turns up in China about the Yangtsze and northwards, extending to Japan, in a somewhat modified form. The Penduline Tit occurs only in South Europe; and we find it again rather changed on the banks of the Yangtsze 850 miles from the sea. jEgithalus pendulinus of Europe has a great deal shorter and smaller bill than the Chinese bird, the black cheek-stripe is more extended, and the white eyebrow and moustache are wanting. The deep russet spreads over the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts. 6. EMBERIZA ELEGANTULA, sp. nov. Female allied to that of E. elegans, Temm., but smaller, with less-distinct crest, longer and more Euspiza-like bill, with the streaks and spots darker and more decided. Upper parts brownish grey, the feathers on the crown with deep-brown median streaks ; on the hind neck marks of chesnut-brown ; on the back and scapulars broad median black streaks, changing sidewards on each feather into chesnut-brown. Eyebrow yellowish white, becoming richer and extending into a bright yellow band across |