58. EMBERIZA. 



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feathers, the fore neck streaked and spotted with dusky blackish ; 

 under tail-coverts white, with longitudinal black centres ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white. Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 

 0-45, wing 3-45, tail 3*1, tarsus 07. 



Young in first •plumage. Entirely brown above, streaked with 

 broad black centres to the feathers ; the head like the back, whh a 

 slightly paler shade on the centre of the crown and over the eye ; the 

 lower back and rump rather more sandy rufous ; the upper tail-coverts 

 chestnut mesially, streaked with black like the centre tail-feathers : 

 tail as in the adult female, but the whito wedge-shaped marks on 

 the two outer feathers more elongated; wings as in adult female, 

 but the edges to the wing-coverts more sandy buff; facial markings 

 as in old female, but more dingy and somewhat washed with fulvous ; 

 cheeks and throat dull white, streaked with dusky blackish along 

 the malar line ; lower throat, fore neck, chest, and under surface of 

 body sandy buff, streaked with blackish ; centre of breast, abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts pure white, the latter with longitudinal mesial 

 streaks of black. (Mus. If. Seebohm.) 



Young female in first winter. Resembles the foregoing nestling- 

 plumage, but has the chest and throat thickly spotted with black, 

 and the throat with a certain amount of rufous. Young males in 

 first winter are much more rufous on the upper surface, have a 

 distinct white facial streak and collar on the fore neck, and the 

 vinous of the throat, face, and eyebrow hidden by sandy-buff tips to 

 the feathers ; the head is brown like the nestling, streaked with 

 blackish brown. (Mus. ff. Seebohm.) 



Hab. Siberia, extending southwards in winter. Accidental in 

 Europe. 



a. $ ad st. 



b. tf ad. sk. 

 r. 5 a d. sk. 



d. 3 ad. sk. 



e. S ad. sk. 

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g. 3 ad. sk. 



h. $ ad. sk. 

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i)i,7i. <5 5 ad. sk. 

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sk. 

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v. 3 ad. sk. 

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Altai Mountains. 



[Siberia.] 



Siberia. 



Krasnoyarsk, April 17. 



Kultuk* Lake Baikal, Mar. 23. 



Tashkend, Turkestan, Nov. 20 



(Severtzoff). 

 Marka Kul, Chinese Altai, 



June 8 {Dr. O. Finsch). 

 Ab-i-Kamarra, W. Afghan- 

 istan, Dec. 7. 

 Candahar, Jan. 12, 1880 (Sir 



O. St. John). 

 Candahar, Jan. 2. 

 Cabul (Griffith). 

 Pushut (Griffith). 

 Gilgit, Dec. 14, 1878 (J. Bid- 



dulph). 

 Sonamurg, Cashmere, Oct. 



1870 (Dr. G. Henderson). 

 Simla, Nov. 11, 1880 ( TV. 



Davison ). 

 Hills north of Masuri. 

 Dehra, 1870. 



Mr. Brandt, 



Gould Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



Purchased. 



India Museum. 



Geogr. Soc. Bremen. 



Dr. Aitchison [C.]. 



Hume Coll. 



Col. Swinhoe [P.]. 

 India Museum. 

 India Museum. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll 



