84 THE BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



under parts below the band are warm chestnut. The bill is 

 reddish, the legs and irides brown. The female (the upper 

 bird) has the head and breast streaked, and lacks the olive on 

 the breast and yellow on the throat. Her upper parts are 

 yellower and her under more buff. Young males have stripes 

 on the head and rump ; and in mature birds the colours are 

 less pure after the autumn moult. Length, 6'5 ins. Wing, 

 3"5 ins. Tarsus, 75 in. 



Yellow-breasted Bunting. Emberiza aureola Pallas. 



Northern Russia and Siberia is the home of the Yellow- 

 breasted or Willow-Bunting ; on migration it has strayed or 

 been driven westward on several occasions, and has three times 

 been met with on the Norfolk coast. Two of the examples 

 were immature females, and Mr. E. C. Arnold, who shot two out 

 of the three, remarks that the most noticeable feature in the 

 field is its marked eye-stripe, and the white in the tail. The 

 mature male has a brown crown and back and a black face, 

 chin and throat, and is pale yellow beneath, a narrow brown 

 band crossing the breast so as to leave a yellow collar ; two 

 white bands cross the wings. In winter the bird has less black 

 on the face and throat. Length, 5*5 ins. Wing, 3*1 ins. Tarsus, 

 75 in. 



Rustic Bunting. E?;ibenza rustica Pallas. 



This bird, which has a northern European and Asiatic 

 range, has been, not infrequently, met with in western Europe ; 

 and about a dozen have been recorded from different localities 

 in England and Scotland from the Sussex coast to the Shet- 

 lands. The English occurrences have been in autumn, but in 

 Scotland and Fair Island it has been met with in spring. The 

 male in breeding dress is a warm chestnut on the nape and 



