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whitish ; bill yellow horn, with dusky tip ; legs fleshy. Length, 7 

 inches ; bill, W ; tail, less 3 ; wing, 3J ; tarse, l^^g^ ; central toe and 

 nail, fl ; hind, |f . 



3. Ace. immaculatus, mihi. — Least of the three; not unlike them 

 in colours, but the plumage more uniform and freer from spots and 

 blotches ; head and neck dusky olive, passing gradually into em- 

 browned ochreous red on the body above and below, as well as on 

 the whole visible part of the closed wing ; shoulders pale slaty blue 

 and unspotted ; alars and caudals dusky brown, and nearly void of 

 brighter margins or tips ; bill blackish ; legs fleshy grey ; iris straw- 

 colour. Length, only 6 inches ; bill, -^ ; tail, 1| ; wing, 2 J ; tarse, |- ; 

 central toe and nail, | ; hind, -^. 



4. Ace. strophiatus, mihi. — Above and laterally sordid rusty, with 

 black central blotches ; below white, with similar marks, but smaller 

 and paler ; wings and tail black-brown ; the alars and their coverts 

 margined with embrowned rusty ; ears and lores margined towards 

 the body all round with bright rusty, and a large gorget of the same 

 on the top of the breast ; from nares to brow a white line, joining the 

 red one above spoken of ; bill dusky horn ; legs fleshy brown ; iris 

 brown ; wings shorter and tail longer than in any of the others. 

 Length, 6 inches ; bill, plus 1 ; tail, 2f ; wing, 2i ; tarse, \^ ; central 

 toe and uail, J ; hind, ■^. Weight less 1 oz. Breeds on the ground, 

 making a saucer-shaped nest of moss, well-compacted. These birds 

 are much on the ground and have an ambulatory structure of legs 

 and feet : I should place them among the Finches, near to the next- 

 named, or Buntings, which also are exclusively monticolous I believe, 

 and are found in the central and northern regions. They are con- 

 stantly flushed from the ground in corn-fields and are comparatively 

 familiar birds to the Accentors, which avoid houses and cultivation. 



Genus Emheriza. 

 We have four species, three of which are the erythroptera, cMo- 

 rocephala, and aureola of authors, and the fourth is I think new, as 

 follows : — Emberiza oinops, mihi. 



New subgenus, Ocyris, mihi. 



Bill very acute and perfectly conic, without any curve along the 

 culmen or gonys ; mouth simply angulated, without palatal knob ; 

 wings with 2-3 longest and equal. 



Type, E. oinops, mihi. — Above rusty red, picked out with large 

 blackish central dashes ; below white, with narrower dark marks, and 

 none on the lower belly and vent ; wings and tail black-brown ; wing 

 with large ruddy margins ; alars internally and laterally albescent ; 

 head and face rusty red, with two longitudinal black marks on the 

 crown and another circling round the ear from the eye nearly to gape ; 

 bill dusky horn ; legs embrowned fleshy ; iris brown. Length, 5^ 

 inches ; bill, ^-^ ; tail, 2| ; wing, 2| ; -tarse, | ; central toe and nail, |. 

 Weight i to f oz. Sexes alike. Stomach gizzard-like ; contents 

 seeds and gravel. 



