54. MILIARIA. 553 



Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 148 (1883): id. Ibis, 1883, p. 11 ; 



Irby, t. c. p. 184 ; Homeyer fy Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. iii. p. 90 



(1883); Tristr. Faun. $ Flor. Palest, y. 71 (1884); Chapm. Ibis, 



1884, pp. 67, 95; Clarke, t. e. p. 104; Saunders, t. c. p. 376; 



Dixon, Ibis, 1885, p. 83 ; Whitehead, t. e. p. 40. 

 Bruant de France appelle le Prover, Dauhent. PI. Enl. v. pi. 233. 

 Fringilla projer, P. L. S. Mull. Natursi/sf. Suppl. p. 164 (1776) ; 



Cass. Proc.' Philad. Acad. 1864, p. 254.' 

 Common Bunting, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 171 (1783). 

 Miliaria septentrionalis, Brehm, Isis, 1828, p. 1278 ; id. Yog. Deutsehl. 



p. 291 (1831). 

 Miliaria germana, Brehm, t. c. p. 292 (1831). 

 Miliaria peregrina, Brehm, t. c. p. 292 (1831). 

 Spinas miliaria, Kaup, Katiirl. Si/st. p. 153 (1829) ; Gray. List Gen. 



B. 1841, p. 61 ; Horsf. 8,- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mm'.' ii. p. 481 



(1854). 

 Miliaria europaea, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 290 (1837); Degl. et 



Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 308 (1867) ; Salvad. Faun. Ital, Ucc. p. 135 



(1871) ; Bogdanqf, li. Cane. p. 70 (1879). 

 Cynchramus miliaria, Bp. Camp. List B. Eur. fy N. Amer. p. 35 



(1838); Bp. Consp. i. p. 463 (18(30) : Filippi, Viago. Pers. p. 349 



(1865); Loche, E.rpl. Sci. Alger., Ois.i. p. 168 (T867) ; IJoderl. 



Avif. Sicil. p. 86 (1869) ; Droste, Vogehc. Borlums, p. 109 



(1869) ; Fritsch, Vbg. Eur. tab. 19. fig. 21 (1870). 

 Orithophaga miliaria, Cab. Mus. Ilein. Th. i.p. 127(1850); Heuql. 



Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 658 (1871); Gould, B. Gt. Br. hi. 



pi. 20 (1873)'; Radde, Orn. Cauc. p. 196 (1884). 

 Miliaria valida, Brehm, Vogelf. p. Ill (1855). 

 Miliaria meridionalis, Brehm, t.c. p. Ill (1855). 

 Miliaria minor, Brehm, t. c. p. Ill (1855). 



Citrinella miliaria, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 115, no. 7697 (1870). 

 Miliaria proier, Giql. Iconoqr. Avif. Ital. pL 186 (1882) ; Salvad. 



Eleneh. Ucc. Ital. p. 162 (1887). 

 Cynchramus miliaria, var. minor, Radde, Orn. Cauc. p. 196 (1884). 



Nettling. General colour above sandy brown, strongly mottled 

 with black centres to the feathers, which are rather paler sandy 

 buff on their extreme margins ; wing-coverts like the back, the tips 

 of the greater and median series rather lighter isabelline buff; 

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

 sandy buff, inclining to isabelline on the first primary and innermost 

 secondaries ; tail-feathers brown, edged with sandy buff along the 

 outer web and round the tips of the inner one ; head more sandy 

 rufous, mottled with black centres to the feathers, the centre of the 

 crown with a broad streak of sandy rufous ; hind neck sandy rufous, 

 more minutely spotted with black like the sides of the neck ; lores, 

 feathers round the eye, a narrow eyebrow, sides of face, and ear- 

 coverts sandy rufous, with a few black streaks on the ear-coverts, 

 and having a broad line of black along the upper edge of the cheeks ; 

 cheeks, throat, and under surface of body pale sandy rufous, the 

 centre of the breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts dull white ; 

 a few triangular spots of black along the malar line ; the fore neck, 

 chest, and sides of the body with larger and more strongly marked 

 spots of black, inclining to streaks on the sides of the body ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries dull white, washed with sandy rufous, the 

 lower ones mottled with black centres near the edge of the wing. 



