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c". Chin and throat white or 

 pale fulvous, with or without 

 streaks. 

 c 4 . Ear-coverts chestnut. 



«■'. A chestnut pectoral band. E. fucata, p. 252. 



b 5 . No pectoral band E. pusilla] p. 254. 



dK Ear-coverts fulvous or 

 brown. 

 o s . Rump and upper tail- 

 coverts of same colour 



as back E. schceniclus £ , p. 251. 



(V. Rump and upper tail- 

 coverts chestnut, quite 

 different to back. 



a 6 . Wing 3-G E. leucocephala £ , V- 254. 



b 6 . Wing 3-3 E. stewarti $ , p. 256. 



b". Lower plumage largely yellow. 

 d'" . Crown chestnut ; or brown 



greatly streaked with black. E. aureola, p. 259. 

 e'". Crown green, with obsolete 



shaft-streaks E. spodocephala, p. 260. 



b'. Sides of body unstreaked and of 

 same colour as abdomen. 

 c". Throat and breast bluish grey. . E. stracheyi, p. 257. 

 d". Throat and breast rufous. , . . . . E. buchanani, p. 258. 



e". Throat and breast yellow E. hortulana, p. 259. 



b. No distinct white patch on outermost 

 tail-feather. 

 e'. Sides of body unstreaked. 

 f". No streaks whatever on lower 

 plumage. 



/'". Crown black E. melanocephala J , p. 261. 



g'". Crown golden . E. luteola $ , p. 262. 



h'" . Crown streaked with brown. 



e*. Wing about 3*5; rump 



more or less tinged with 



chestnut E. melanocephala $ > P« 261 . 



fK Wing about 3-2 ; rump 



tinged yellow . . . E. luteola $ , p. 262. 



(/". Throat and fore neck streaked . . E. striolata, p. 264. 

 d'. Sides of body streaked E. rutila, p. 263. 



789. Emberiza schceniclus. The Heed-Bunting. 



Emberiza sclKeuiclus, Linn. Si/st. Nat. i, p. 311 (1766) ; Hume, S. I. 

 vii, p. 412; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 81 ; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 575 ; 

 Hume, Cat. no. 720 ter ; Shaipe, Cat. B. M. xii, p. 480. 



Coloration. Male. After the autumn moult the foi-eheacl, 

 crow a, aud nape are black, each feather broadly margined with 

 fulvous ; a broad collar round the hind neck white, the feathers 

 with broad fulvous-ashy tips, which conceal the white bases of the 

 feathers ; the whole upper plumage and wings dark brown, each 

 feather Droadly margined with rufous or chestnut, the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts strongly tinged with ashy ; the four middle 

 pairs of tail-feathers very dark brown, margined with rufous : the 



