53. EMBEKTZA. 4Q y 



Adult male General colour above reddish brown, streaked with 

 b ack, the feathers of the mantle and back edged with ashy -lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts uniform dull chestnut- lesTer 

 wmg.eoverts ashy brown; median coverts blackish, ti pped with 

 ashy white ; greater coverts blackish, edged with reddish brown 

 creamy buff externally ■ bastard-wing Sky, edged with rufou ? 

 pnmary-coverts dusky, externally fringed with ashy; qSls duSy 

 blackish, externally rufous, the primaries edged with whity brown" 7 



fromTAT "JE" W / th " ? 1Sky blaC ' kish S P° fc at a little distance' 

 irom the base of the outer web ; centre tail-feathers brown washed 

 with rufous externally; remainder of the feathers blackfchj* two 

 outer ones with an oblique white mark on the inner web more 



EKf H,° n ^ ° Ut l rm i St featber ' wMch i3 White for the baS 

 halt of the outer web also ; crown of head black, with a white 



stripe down the centre of the crown, becoming tinged with yellow 

 on the forehead ; a broad superciliary streak of clear yellow, fornW 

 an eyebrow, which becomes white posteriorly ; upper edge of eyelid 

 yellow ; lores, feathers round eye, and a streak from the eye above 

 the ear-coverts black ; the latter brown, blackish on the lower parts 

 and with a white spot above the hinder margin ; cheeks white' 

 separated from the throat by a dusky malar line ; sides of neck ashy 

 grey with dusky streaks; under surface of body white, the throat 

 with a few blackish spots; the fore neck tinged with fulvous and 

 streaked with blackish, less pronounced on the breast, the sides of 

 the latter having a chestnut tinge; sides of body and flanks ful- 

 vescent rather broadly streaked with black, the stripes tinged with 

 chestnut laterally; thighs and under tail-coverts white, the lon^ 

 ones of the latter mesially streaked with black ; under wing-coverts 

 and axilknes white, with ashy bases ; quills below dusky, ashy 

 along the inner edge. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-45, win- 3-05 

 tail 2-4o, tarsus 0-75. (Mug. H. Seebohm.) 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but browner on the head • the 

 sides of the crown washed with chestnut, the ear-coverts pale brown 

 and he stripes on the lower surface not so distinct as in the male 

 lotal length 5-8 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-95, tail 2-3, tarsus 0-7. 

 (Mus. H. Seebohm.) 

 Bab. Eastern Siberia. 



9. Emberiza flaviventris. 

 Ortolan a ventre jaune du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Baubent PI 

 Enl. y. pi. G64. tig. 2 ; Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 326 (177a) ' 

 Emberiza flav. (!), Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 41 (1783). 

 Cape Bunting, var. a, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 184 (1783) 

 Emberiza capensis, var. a, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 878 (1786). 

 Passerina flaviventris, Bonn, et T'ieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p 9?9 (ISO'S) 

 Emberiza xanthogaster, Cretzschm. in Riipp. Atlas, p. 38 tab" 25 



U- 826 Kf5?oV G '7A\ ZW - xiVl P- 18 ( 182(3 )>- Ril PP- Neue Wirb. 

 ^ I off. p. 8b (183o-40). 



Yellow-bellied Bunting, Lath. Gen. Hist. v. p. 317 (18 >2) 



Fringillaria capensis, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. Ill p l. 18 (1837 nee 



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