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791 . Emberiza pusilla. The Dwarf Bunting. 



Emberiza pusilla, Pall. Reis. Buss. Reichs, iii, p. 697 (1776); Jerd. 

 B. I. ii, p. 370; Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 603; Oate*, 

 B. B. i, p. 353; S/iarpe, Cat. B. M. xii, p. 487; Hume, Vat. 

 ^ no. 720 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 280. 



Euspiza pusilla {Pall.), Blyth, Cat. p. 130. 



Ocyris oinopus, Hodgs., Horsf. $ M. Cat. ii, p. 488. 



Coloration. Male. After the moult a broad rufous band over 

 the crown from the forebead to the nape, some of the feathers 

 with a brown mesial streak ; a broad dark brown band on either 

 side of the coronal band, all the feathers broadly margined with 

 rufous ; a distinct pale rufous supercilium ; lores and ear-coverts 

 chestnut ; upper plumage and wings dark brown or blackish, each 

 feather margined with rufous ; tail dark brown margined paler, the 

 penultimate feather with a streak of white near the tip, the outer 

 feather largely white on both webs ; cheeks pale fulvous, produced 

 as a band under the ear-coverts ; chin and throat white ; sides of 

 the throat, the whole breast, and the sides of the body white, 

 sullied with fulvous and densely streaked with dark brown ; abdo- 

 men, vent, aud under tail-coverts white without. streaks. 



In spring, the broad coronal band becomes richer rufous, and 

 the broad lateral bands pure deep black, in consequence of the 

 rufous margins getting worn away, and the supercilium becomes 

 very well defined and somewhat broader. 



Female. Resembles the male in winter plumage very closely, but 

 apparently never acquires the deep black coronal bands. 



The young resemble the adults in winter but are paler. 



Bill horny; legs pale fleshy brown ; iris brown {Jerdon). 



Length about 5-5; tail 2-4; wing 2'8 ; tarsus '7; bill from 

 gape "45. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from the Sutlej valley to Assam. 

 This species has been observed at numerous localities in the 

 Eastern part of the Empire from Assam through the hill-ranges to 

 Bliamo. It has also been obtained in Karennee and on Muleyit 

 mountain in Tenasserim. This Bunting does not appear to be 

 found in the plains of the Indian Peninsula, but Jerdon records it 

 from the Purneah district. A specimen from the Andamaus is 

 in the Tweeddale collection. 



The Dwarf Bunting visits the Empire in the winter only. In 

 the summer it is found throughout Northern Asia and China. 



792. Emberiza leucocephala. The Pine-Bunting. 



Emberiza leucocephala, S. G. Gm. N. Comm. Acad. So. Imp. Petrov. 

 xv, p. 480, tab. xxiii, fig. 3 (1770) ; Hume § Senders. Lah. to 

 Yark. p. 254 ; Hume, Cat. no. 712 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 79, 

 1882, p. 282 ; Scidly, Ibis, 1881, p. 574 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii, 

 p. 549. 



Emberiza pitbyornis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i, p. 875 (1788) ; Horsf. fy M. 

 Cat. ii, p. 482 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 370. 



