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brunneo striato ; capite cristato brunneo striato ; rectricibus 

 brunneis ritfo marginatis. 

 Statura minor quam praecedentis. 



99. Alauda Dukhunensis. Al. corpore supra griseo-brunneo, 



plumis in medio Jusco -brunneo notatis ; subtils albescens, pectore 

 strigdque superciliari rujescentibus ; rectricibus Jusco -brunneis > 

 duabus lateralibus albo marginatis. 



Irides intense brunneae. Longitudo corporis 6 T V unc, 

 caudce 2. 

 Grass seeds only found in the stomach. Frequents stony plains. 



Genus Mirqfra, Horsf. 



100. Mirajra phcenicura, Frankl. 



This bird is characterized by the lightness, shortness, abruptness, 

 and sudden ascents and descents of its flight. Irides yellow- 

 brown. Granivorous. 



Genus Emberiza, Auct. Bunting. 



101. Emberiza melanocephala, Scop. 



This native of Corfu is common to Western India. It appears in 

 considerable flocks at the ripening of the bread grain Jotvaree' 

 (Andropogon Sorghum) in December. Irides intense brown. 

 Length 7-rV inches : tail 3 inches. Granivorous. Allied to Emb. 

 luteola, Mus. Carls, vol. 4. t. 93. 



102. Emberiza hortulana, Linn. Red-brown Bunting. 



This, although not absolutely identical, is so closely allied to the 

 European bird that Colonel Sykes cannot separate it. Irides 

 intense brown. Length 7-rV inches; tail 3 inches. Grass seeds 

 only found in the stomach. Bird solitary. 



103. Emberiza cristata, Vigors, Proceed. Zool. Soc. I. p. 35. 

 Length 6| inches : tail 2 T V inches. Rare in Dukhun, and found 



only on rocky and bushy mountains. Female of a uniform 

 sooty brown. Grass seeds only found in the stomach. Native 

 of China and Nepaul as well as Dukhun. 

 104?. Emberiza subcristata. Emb. supra intense brunnea, plumis 

 brunneo pallidiori marginatis; subtus paltide brunnea, Jusco 

 striata; alarum plumarum rectricumque lateralium marginibus, 

 rectricibusque duabus mediis castaneis ; capite subcristato. 

 Irides intense brunneae. Rostrum rufo-brunneum. Longi- 

 tudo corporis C-A- unc, caudce 2 X V. 

 Sexes alike in size and plumage. Birds rare and solitary, and 

 found only in the open spaces on high mountains. This bird is 

 pronounced in Europe to be the female of Emb. cristata; 

 but setting aside the fact of both sexes of each bird being in 

 the present collection, their localities are different, and they 

 were never seen together by Colonel Sykes. 



Genus Linaria, Bechst. Linnet. 

 105. Linaria Amandava. Fringilla Amandava, Linn. 



These beautiful little birds, so common in Goojrat, are rare in 

 Dukhun. 



