53. EMBERIZA. 539 



Young. Pale yellowish buff, all the feathers niesially streaked 

 with black ; the wing-coverts blackish, broadly edged with yellowish 

 buff; wings and tail as in adults ; head yellowish buff like the back 

 and streaked in the same manner; sides of face and under surface 

 of body yellowish buff, inclining to creamy white ou the abdomen ; 

 the ear-coverts with a brown streak along the upper margin ; the 

 cheeks, throat, and breast spotted with triangular marks of blackish, 

 a little more longitudinal on the sides of the body and flanks. 



Young males in their first winter plumage have the head like the 

 back, with only a slight ashy tinge on the crown ; the black facial 

 markings obscured by ashy-brown tips to the feathers, the white 

 eyebrow and ear-coverts also washed with brown ; under surface of 

 body much paler than in the adults, with tiny dusky spots on the 

 throat and breast. These small spots seem to be an unfailing 

 character of the young bird, and they are also found in the young 

 female, which in its first winter plumage can scarcely be distin- 

 guished from the young male of a similar age. 



Hah. Southern Europe, across Persia to Afghanistan. 



a. d ad. sk. Europe. Gould Coll. 



b. d ad. sk. France. Hume Coll. 



c. d ad. sk. Bordeaux, France. India Museum. 



d. Ad. sk. Valencia, Spain. Hume Coll. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Valencia, Dec. 20, 1871 (H. Hume Coll. 



Saunders). 



f. d ad. sk. Malaga, May 23, 1869 (H. Hume Coll. 



Saunders). 



ff. d ad. sk. Gibraltar, Feb. 10 (L. H. Irby). Hume Coll. 



/;. d ad. sk. Rome, Italy (P. L. Sclater). India Museum. 



i. d ad. sk. Macedonia, Feb. \7(H. J. Ehoes). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k, I. d 5 ad.sk. Buvukdere, Turkey, Dec. (T. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Robson). [P.]. 



m. 3 ad. sk. Turkey, March (T. Robson). Gould Coll. 



n. d ad. sk. Near Constantinople, Nov. 10 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



( W. Pearce). [P.]. 



o. d ad. sk. Aiden, Asia Minor, Dec. 16, 1879 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(Schrader). [P.]. 



p. Juv.sk. Erzeroum (Dickson §• Ross). Gould Coll. 



q. d ad. sk. Trebizond (Dickson fy Ross). Gould Coll. 



r. d ad. sk. Pass of Afka, Lebanon. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



s. Juv. sk. Persia ( IF. T. Blanford). Hume Coll. 



t. 2 ad. sk. ; Pass to Anan, Elburz Moun- W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



ii. d juv. sk. tains, N. Persia, Aug. 11. [C.]. 



V. d ; iv, x. 2 Pushut, Afghanistan (Griffith). India Museum. 

 ad. sk. 



Subsp. a. Emberiza stracheyi. 



Euspiza cia (nee L.), Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 131 (1849). 



Emberiza strachevi, Moore, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 215, pi. 112; Horsf. $f 

 Moore, Cat. B. E. I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 483 (1856) ; Jerd. B. Lid. ii. 

 p. 372 (1863); Brooks, Str. F. 1875, p. 254; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, 

 p. 107; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 65; Biddulph, Lbis, 1881, 

 p. 79; Scully, t. c. p. 574; Sale. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 236 (1882); 

 Marshall, Ibis, 1884, p. 419. 



Buscarla stracheyi, Bp, Rev. et Mar/, de Zool. 1857, p. 162. 



