EMBERIZA. 233 



?,. Yonesei Kivcr, Lat. GG^°N., 27lh Soebohm Coll. 



June (//. jS.). 

 3. Yenesei River, Lat. G7° N., SOtli Seebohm Coll. 



June (IL S.). 

 1. Amur River (Nehrkoni Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Emberiza rustica, Fall. 



Hvpocentor nisticus, Baedeker, Eier Fad-. Viig. tab 12. fig. 13 ; tab. 76. 



«f?. 10(1855-63). 

 Euiberi/a rustica, Bree, Birds Eur. 2nd ed. iii. p. 157, pi. (1875) ; 



Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 229 (1877) ; Setbohni, Brit. Birds, ii. 



p. 140, pi. 15 (1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 4i)0 (1888) ; 



Tacz. Faune Oni. ISiber. Orient, p. 572 (1891) ; Seebohvi, Eggs of 



Brit. Birds, p. 249, pi. 58. tig-. 5 (1896) ; Neivton, P. Z. S. 1897, 



p. 893, pi. li. tigs. 8 & 9 ; ^'ehrk. Kat. Eiersaminl. p. 112 (1899) ; 



Dresser, Man. Fed. Birds, pt. i. p. 362 (1902) ; Hartert, Viig. Fat. 



Faun. pt. ii. p. 188 (1904 ) ; Jourd. Eggs Europ. Birds, p. Ill, pi. 14. 



tig. 7 (1900) ; Jb'harpe, Hand-l. v. p. 277 (1909). 

 Euspiza rustica, Rey, Eier Vog. Mitteleurop. p. 297, pi. 38. fig. 7 (1900). 



Eggs of the llnstic Bunting are of a blunt oval shape and 

 moderately glossy. Two eggs have the ground-colour pale greyish- 

 green, mottled all over with two shades of greenish-brown and a 

 black hair-line across the larger end. Under these markings, which 

 are very thickly disjjosed over the shell, may be detected traces of 

 underlying greyish spots. Eight eggs have the ground-colour pale 

 blue or greenish-blue, spotted and blotched, especially towards the 

 larger end, with olive-brown and lavender-grey, the latter colour 

 forming a more or less distinct zone round the broad end. They 

 measure from -78 to -81 in length, and from -55 to -01 in breadth.* 



2. Archangel, X. Russia, 16tli June. Seebohm Coll. 



4. Arcbiingel, 3rd June. Crowley Bequest. 



4. Pinega, Archangel, 20th June. W. Radclifte Saimders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Emberiza fucata, Pall. 



(Plate XI. figs. 1-4.) 



Emberiza fucata, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 493(1888); Taez. 

 Faune Orn. Siber. Orient, p. 577 (1891) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersa^nnd. 

 p. 112 (1899) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 360 (1902) ; La 

 Tonche, Ibis, 1906, p. 631 ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 277 (1909). 



Emberiza fucata fucata, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 187 (1904). 



Eggs of the Grey-headed Bunting vary from a broad oval to a 



* Baedeker's fifrures of Uie eggs of this Bunting are good, but Bree's repro- 

 duction of one of them is altogether wrong and unrecognizable. Mr. Dresser's 

 description of the eggs in the ' Birds of Europe ' applies to those of some other 

 species of Bunting, and he was evidently misled by his correspondent. He 

 subsequently obtained genuine eggs. (C/. Jsewton, I. c.) 



