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Male. — Head, neck, and upper 

 breast olive gray. Under parts pale 

 yellow, streaked brown on the flanks. 

 Back, and wing coverts reddish brown, 

 streaked with black. The uniform 

 gray color of the heads of the males 

 offers an easy mark of identification. 



Female has the gray of the head 

 streaked with dark brown. The throat 

 is pale yellow. The breast gray, more 

 or less streaked with brown. The 

 abdomen pale yellow or whitish. 



Distribution. — Siberia and China 

 generally. A winter visitant in the 

 Yangtse Valley. 



Notes. — Dr. Bergen says " One sees 

 these Buntings flitting about in the 

 thick undergowth in Fokien. They 

 are common and at the same time 

 very wary, flashing in and out of 

 cover, so that generally only an in- 

 stant's view is secured." In the 

 Yangtse Valley, however, they vei*y 

 commonly spend the winter in our 

 yards and gardens, where they lose 

 much of their shyness, and will come 

 right to the doorstep for food. 



The Green-headed Bunting (Emberiza 

 spodocephala melanops) has been 

 differentiated as a separate species, but 

 is regarded by most authorities as 

 only a color variation of the Gray- 

 headed Bunting, and if separated at 

 all should only be given sub-specific 

 rank. The gray of the head was sup- 

 posed to be of a more decidedly green 

 shade. 



THE PAINTED BUNTING. 



EMBEKIZA FUCATA, PALLAS. 

 Description. — Length five and three 

 quarter inches. Bill brown, lighter at 



