53. emberiza: 531 



Green-headel Banting, Brown, Illmtr. Z'joI. p. 73, pi. 30 (1776) ; 



Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 211 (1783). 

 Ortolan Bunting, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 106 (1783). 

 Emberiza moelbyensis, Sparrm. Mas. Carls, i. pi. 21 (1783). 

 Emberiza cblorocepliala, Gin. Syst. Nat. i. p. 887 (1788). 

 Emberiza badensis, Gm. torn. cit. p. 873 (1788). 

 Emberiza tunstalli, Lath. Lid. O.-n. i. p. 418 (1790). 

 Citrinella bortulana, Kaup, Natilrl. Syst. p. 142 (1829) ; Gray, 



Hanrl-l. B. i. p. 133, no. 7687 (1869). 

 Emberiza pinguescens, Brehm, V'6g. Deutschl. p. 295 (1831). 

 Euspiza bortulana, Blyth, Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 129 (1849). 

 Emberiza shah, Bj>. Coti^p. i. p. 465 (18">0). 

 Glvcispina bortulana, Cab. Mm. Hein. Th. i. p. 128(1850) : Giylioli, 



Ibis, 1865, p. 58 ; Gould, B. Gt. Br. iii. pi. 27 (c. 1870) ; Boyd. 



B. Cauc. p. 71 (1879). 

 Emberiza delicata, Brehm, Yoyelf. p. 113 (1855). 

 Emberiza antiquorum, Brehm, t. c. p. 113 (185o). 

 Emberiza intercedens, Brehm, t. o. p. 113 (1855). 

 Hortulanus chloi'ocephalus, By. Cat. Parzud. p. 4 (1856) ; Bettoni, 



Ucc. nidif. Lomb. i. pi. GS (1865) ; Ijoche, Erpl. Sci. Alyer. ii. 



p. 178 (1867). 

 Citrinella shah, Gray, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 113, no. 7691. 



Adult male. General colour above pale reddish brown, with mesial 

 black streaks to the feathers of the mantle, upper hack, and scapulars, 

 the latter distinctly rufescent ; lower back and rump more uniform, 

 with scarcely distinguishable shaft-streaks; lesser wing-coverts ashy 

 with blackish bases ; median and greater coverts blackish, externally 

 edged with pale rufous, the inner secondaries similarly coloured ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown, edged with 

 pale ashy rufous ; tail-feathers blackish brown, with lighter brown 

 edges, the penultimate feather with a broad wedge-shaped mark of 

 white at the end of the inner web, larger on the outer feather, 

 which is also edged with white towards the base ; entire head dusky 

 greenish olive ; lores yellowish ; eyelid white ; ear-coverts like the 

 crown ; cheeks pale sulphur-yellow, separated from the throat by 

 a distinct moustachial streak of dusky greenish olive, which widens 

 out towards the sides of the neck, which are also of the same colour ; 

 throat pale sulphur-yellow, the fore neck and chest dusky greenish 

 olive ; remainder of under surface of body pale cinnamon-rufous, 

 much lighter on the vent and under tail-coverts, which are edged 

 with ashy ; axillaries pale sulphur-yellow ; under wing-coverts 

 white, washed with yellow, and with ashy bases ; quills dusky below, 

 ashy along the inner web. Total length 6 inches, culmen 05 

 wing 3*35, tail 2-5, tarsus - 75. 



Young. Similar to the old female, hut more yellow below, without 

 any tinge of fawn-colour, the whole throat, breast, and sides of body 

 streaked with dark brown or blackish. 



Adult female. Very similar to the male, from which it differs in 

 its paler coloration and in having the lower throat and fore neck 

 streaked with dark brown. Total length 5 - S inches, culmen - 5, 

 wing 3*2, tail 2*4, tarsus - 75. 



In winter plumaqe the male is rather lighter coloured than in 



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