

53. EMBERIZA. 547 



the bird last described, aud has the fore neck, chest, and sides of 

 the body pale ochreous buff, with reddish-brown streaks. 

 Hub. China. 



a. Ad. sk. China (i?. Swinhoe). Gould Coll. 



33. Einberiza stewarti. 



Emberiza stewarti, Blyth, J. A. S. Bene/, xxiii. p. 215 (Feb. 1854). 

 Emberiza caniceps, Gould, B. Asia, v. pi. 6 (1854} ; Severtz. Turkest. 



Jevotn. p. 04 (1873). 

 Emberiza stewarti, Horsf. $ Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 485 



(185G) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 374 (1863) ; Peh. Ibis, 1868, p. 318 ; 



Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 400; Cock §• Marsh. Str. F. 1873, p. 357 ; 



Dresser, Ibis, 187"), p. 248; Murray, Str. F. 1878, p. 112; Hume, 



Str. F. 1879, p. 107 ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind etc: p. 47 (1879) ; 



Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1879, p. 446, 1880, p. 65 ; Barnes, Str. F. 



L880, p. 456; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 81 ; Scully, t. a. p. 575 ; 



Salo. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 236 (1882) ; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 113 ; 



Biddulph, t. c. p. 282; Marshal/, Ibis, 1884, p. 419; Murray, 



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

 Buscarla buchanani {nee Blyth), Bp. Bev. et Man. de Zool. 1857, 



p. 162. 

 Citrinella stewarti, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 114, no. 7706 (1870) ; 



Hume, Rests and Eygs Ind. B. p. 465 (1873). 



Adult male. General colour above chestnut, with a few remains 

 of black centres to some of the mantle-feathers ; lesser wing-coverts 

 like the back, edged with ashy ; median and greater coverts dusky 

 brown, edged with rufous, slightly fulvescent at the ends ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and primaries dusky brown, narrowly edged 

 with paler brown, the secondaries with rufous ; tail-feathers blackish 

 brown, edged with pale brown, the penultimate one with a large 

 wedge-shaped mark of white near the end of the inner web; the 

 outer feather almost entirely white, excepting an oblique mark of 

 blackish brown near the base of the inner web, the shaft and a mark 

 near the end of the outer web, which are dusky brown ; crown of 

 head pearly grey, bordered on each side by a black band running 

 from the base of the bill to the side of the nape; lores, feathers 

 below the eye, and ear-coverts whitish, forming a broad facial band ; 

 cheeks and throat black ; lower throat and fore neck ashy white, 

 succeeded by a broad band of deep chestnut ; abdomen isabelline, 

 as also the sides of the body and under tail-covcrts, both of which are 

 mottled with chestnut bases, the long under tail-coverts with dusky 

 centres ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy white with dusky 

 bases ; quills dusky below, ashy along the edge of the inner web. 

 Total length 7'6 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 3, tail 2-~, tarsus 0*7. 



Adult female. Different from the male. Ashy brown above 

 streaked with blackish centres to the feathers, the head and neck 

 like the back, the scapulars washed with chestnut ; lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts uniform bright chestnut ; wings brown, 



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