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back fulvescent, washed with rufous and broadly streaked with black; 

 wing-coverts broadly edged and tipped with yellowish buff ; throat whitish, 

 spotted with black like the breast; the latter as well as the flanks yellowish 

 buff, streaked with black. After the first molt the coloration of the 

 adult is assumed, but the plumage is always duller and much paler, and 

 in some birds, probably females, the throat is white without any chestnut. 



"Nestling. — Yellowish buff, broadly streaked with black, the head 

 more rufous, and the ear-coverts rufous; underneath white, washed with 

 rufous on the chin and with ochreous-buff on the throat and breast, thickly 

 streaked with black on the latter as well as on the flanks and sides of the 

 body; wings and tail as in adults, with the exception that the ^ving- 

 coverts are more fulvous at tips." (Sharpe.) 



Whitehead collected the only specimen of the little bunting which has 

 been recorded from the Philippine Islands. 



698. EMBERIZA SPODOCEPHALA Pallas. 



BLACK-FACED BUNTING. 



Emheriza spodocephala Pallas, Reise Russ. Reiclis (1776), 3, 698; Shaepe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1888), 12, 522; Grant, Ibis (1895), 258; 

 Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 240; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List 

 (1906), 104. 



Catanduanes (Whitehead). Eastern Siberia; in winter to Assam, Manipur, 

 China, and eastern Himalayas; accidental in Japan. 



"Adult male in summer plumage. — General color above dark brown, 

 the feathers of the upper back slightly washed with rufous, edged with 

 fulvous and broadly streaked down the middle with black; scapulars like 

 the back ; lesser wing-coverts uniform reddish brown ; median and greater 

 series blackish brown, externally sandy brown, margined paler and tipped 

 with huffy white, more distinct on the median coverts; the inner greater 

 coverts more distinctly rufous externally; primary-coverts and quills 

 dusky brown, externally fringed with ashy ; quills dusky brown, externally 

 washed with rufous, the primaries with asliy white; inner secondaries 

 resembling the inner greater coverts; lower back, inimp, and upper tail- 

 coverts uniform earthy brown; center tail-feathers light brown, the re- 

 mainder dark brown, edged with lighter brown, the penultimate one 

 with a large wedge-shaped mark of white near the end of the outer web, 

 the outer feather almost entirely white save for an "oblique black mark on 

 the inner web and a small brown mark at the end of the outer web; 

 head and neck all round, including the sides of the face and neck, throat, 

 and chest ashy gray with a distinct wash of olive; lores, base of cheeks, 

 and chin black; breast pale sulphur-yellow, whiter towards the vent; 

 under tail-coverts pale sulphur-yellow; thighs ashy olive; sides of breast 

 and flanks reddish brown, rather distinctly striped with black; axillars 

 very pale sulphur-yellow; under wing-coverts white with dusky bases; 



