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THE YELLOW-BEOWED 

 BUNTING. 



EMBERIZA CHRYSOPHRYS, PALL. 



Description. — Length six inches. 



Grown black, feathers edged light 

 brown, with a conspicuous white 

 median stripe. A bright yellow 

 eyebrow. Ear coverts brown or black, 

 with a white spot just behind. Throat 

 white, or yellowish white, with more 

 or less black streaks. Back reddisli 

 brown, most of the feathers with black 

 centers. 



Female similar, but paler. 



The yellow eyebrow with the white 

 crown streak, and the reddish brown 

 rump serve to identify this Bunting. 



Distribution. — Siberia and China. 

 A migrant in the Yangtse Valley. 



THE YELLOW-BREASTED 

 BUNTING. 



EMBERIZA AUREOLA, PALL. 



Description. — Length six inches. 

 Bill, upper mandible dark brown, lower 

 lighter. Tarsus pinkish brown. Iris 

 brown. 



Front of the head black. Vertex, 

 neck, scapulars, and rump chestnut 

 washed gray. Back striped with gray 

 and black. Throat black. Under 

 parts bright yellow, with a chestnut 

 pectoral band, and a few long brown 

 spots on the flanks. Wings brown, 

 with lighter margins to feathers, and 

 a pronounced white wing bar. 



Females very similar, but the colors 

 are duller, and the pectoral band is 

 replaced by a few indistinct blackish 

 spots. 



