

53. EMBERIZA. 533 



h'. ($ ad. ; t'. Juv. Lepsa River, June. Moscow Mus. [P.]. 



sk. 

 k' f I'. Skeletons. Purchased. 



25. Emberiza buchanani. 



? Emberiza hortulana, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 93 (nee L.). 



Emberiza buchanani, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 957 (1844), xvi. 

 p. 780 (1847) ; Hume, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 150 ; id. Str. F. 1879, 

 p. 107 ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind, p. 47 (1879) ; Barnes, Str. F. 1880, 

 p. 218 ; Butler, Cat. B. S. Bomb. Pres. p. 62 (1880) ; Biddulph, 

 Ibis, 1881, p. 80 ; Reid, Str. F. 1881, p. 57 ; Davids, t. c. p. 313. 



Euspiza huttoni, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xviii. p. 811 (1849). 



Emberiza huttoni, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 373 (1863); Blyth, Ibis, 1867, 

 p. 42 ; Blanf. t. e. p. 403 ; Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 400; Holdsw. Ibis, 

 1872, p. 473 ; Blanf. Ibis, 1874, p. 81 ; id. East. Persia, ii. p. 258 

 (1876); Butler, Str. F. 1876, p. 35; Fairb. t.c. p. 26; Butler, 

 Str. F. 1877, pp. 221, 230 ; Blanf. t. c. p. 246 ; Hume, t. c. p. 329 ; 

 Finsah, Verlu z.-b. Gesellsch. Wien, xxix. p. 214 (1879); Scully, 

 Ibis, 1881, p. 575 ; Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 113 ; Homeyer Sf Tancre, 

 MT. orn. Ver, Wien, 1883, p. 90; Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 11; 

 Severlz. t. c. p. 61 ; Radde, Orn. Cauo. p. 195 (1884) ; Murray, 

 Vertebr. Faun. Sind, p. 185 (1884). 



Emberiza cerrutii, De Filippi, Arch, jier la Zool. ii. fasc. 2, p. 383 

 (1863); id. Viagg. Pers. p. 249 (1805) ; Salvad. Atti B. Accad. 

 Sci. Torino, iii. p! 286 (1867) ; Goidd, B. Asia, v. pi. 11 (1869) ; 

 Boyd. B. Caue. p. 71 (1879). 



Citrinella huttoni, Gray,Hand-l. B. ii. p. 113, no. 7690 (1870); Adam, 

 Str. F. 1873, p. 388. 



Adult nude in breeding-plumage. General colour above ashy brown, 

 narrowly streaked with darker brown on the mantle and back ; the 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts uniform ashy brown ; scapu- 

 lars externally chestnut, with dark brown shaft-streaks : lesser wing- 

 coverts ashy brown like the back ; median coverts chestnut, with 

 brown bases ; greater coverts dark brown, edged with ashy rufous ; 

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

 ashy, the secondaries externally ashy rufous ; upper tail-coverts and 

 centre tail-feathers light brown, ed°:ed with rufous, the remainder 

 of the tail-feathers blackish, edged with brown, the two outer ones 

 with a large wedge-shaped mark of white at the end of the inner 

 web, the outermost also white along the outer web ; crown of 

 head dull ashy grey, with narrow blackish shaft-lines, the hind neck 

 and sides of neck browner ; a conspicuous white eyelid ; lores dull 

 whitish ; sides of face ashy, as also the cheeks and ear-coverts ; chin 

 and fore part of cheeks dull white, with a tolerably distinct dusky 

 malar streak ; throat and remainder of tinder surface of body pale 

 chestnut, with indistinct ashy margins ; sides of upper breast ashy 

 grey ; sides of body and flanks brown ; lores, abdomen, and under 

 tail- coverts paler than the breast, the lateral coverts whitish ; ax- 

 illaries and under wing-coverts ashy white with dusky bases ; quills 

 pale brown below, ashy rufous along the inner web. Total length 

 6 inches, culmen 0'45, iving 3*35, tail 2 - 7, tarsus 0*75. 



The adult male in winter plumage scarcely differs from the 



