53. EMBERIZA. 485 



Kashgar, Feb. 28 (J. Biddulph) . Hume Coll. 



Candahar, Afghanistan, Feb. 8. Col. C. Swinkoe [P.]. 



Gilgit, Feb. 1878 (J. Bidclulph). Hume Coll. 



Eobtuk, Punjab, Dec. 29, 18G7 Hume Coll. 

 (A. O. H.). 



2. Emberiza passerina. 



Emberiza passerina, Pall. Reis. Russ. Reichs, i. App. p. 456 (1771) ; 



id. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 49 (1811) ; Seebokm, Ibis, 1879, p. 39, 



pi. i. fig. 1. 

 Emberiza schceniclus, var. /3, Pall. Zoom: Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 48 



(1811). 

 Cynchramus pallasii, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 130, note (1850) ; 



Olph-Galliard, Rev. et May. de Zool. 1869, p. 181. 

 Emberiza polaris, Midd. Sibir.Reis. ii. p. 146 (1851) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 



1878, p. 339. 

 Emberiza schceniclus, var. minor, Midd. Sibir. Reis. ii. p. 144 (1851) ; 



Schre?ick, Reis. Amurl. p. 284 (1859) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. 



pp. 64, 118. 

 Emberiza canescens, Swinh. Ibis, 1860, p. 62, 1861, p. 334 ; id. P. Z. S. 



1863, p. 301. 

 Emberiza alleonis, Vian, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1869, p. 97. 

 Citrinella canescens, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 113, no. 7693 (1870). 

 Schcenicola pallasii, Swinh, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 389; David & Oust. 



Ois. Chine, p. 321 (1878). 

 Emberiza pallasii, Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 249. 

 Schcenicola passerina, Tacz.Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 178 (1876), 



iv. p. 137 (1879). 

 Schceniclus pallasii, Swinh. Ibis, 1876, p. 333. 



Cynchramus polaris, Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 309 (1877). 

 Emberiza minor, Seeboh?n, Ibis, 1879, p. 39. 

 Emberiza schceniclus, var. passerinus, Seebokm, Hist. Brit. B. ii. 



p. 135 (1884). 



Adult male in summer plumage. Similar to E. schceniclus, but 

 much smaller and with the colours much purer, black and white 

 without the rufous, the rump and upper tail-coverts white, the 

 latter with ashy centres ; wings black, with more or less distinct 

 white edges ; lesser coverts ashy grey ; facial markings and under 

 surface as in E. schceniclus, but the white much purer and the con- 

 trast much stronger : "bill blackish brown, the edges of the lower 

 mandible reddish ; legs flesh-colour ; toes brownish ; iris brown " 

 (David). Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-9, tail 2-45, 

 tarsus 0*7. (Mus. II. Seebohm.) 



Adult male in whiter plumage. Sandy rufous, entirely obscuring 

 the back of the head and face ; the white of the hind neck quite 

 hidden and only observable on disarranging the plumage ; the back 

 with more or less evidences of black centres to the feathers ; the 

 white of the rump entirely obscured with sandy rufous ; lesser wing- 

 coverts conspicuously bluish grey ; the rest of the coverts and the 

 quills broadly edged with sandy rufous, with a certain amount of 

 white subterminally visible on the former ; the whole of the under 

 surface washed with sandy rufous, which entirely obscures the black 

 throat. 



