186 PRINGILLID^. 



a mesial dark streak ; cheeks and ear-coverts white ; breast, belly and 

 under tail-coverts g-reyish white or rafescent white ; the under tail- 

 coverts with dark mesial streaks; wing-coverts dark brown, edged 

 with, fulvous, or buffy brown; primaries and secondaries pale brown, 

 the primaries edged whitish, and the secondaries fulvous brown ; tail 

 dark brown, the outermost feather on each side white on the outer 

 web ; the shaft dark brown, the white of the inner web running ob- 

 liquely from about one-fourth its length at the base; the next like the 

 outermost, but with the outer web dark brown, and narrowly edged 

 with white. The Female is olive browu above, the feathers with dark 

 mesial streaks ; upper tail-coverts tinged rufescent ; under surface 

 fulvous or buffy brown, the feathers mesially streaked with dark brown ; 

 bill and legs pale browu. 



LciKjth. — 6 inches, wings 3 to 3'1, tail 2-75, tarsus 0'7. 



Ilah. — Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, N. W. Himalayas, Beloochistan 

 and Southern Afghanistan. Uncommon in Sind, and occurs less abund- 

 antly in the Southern Districts during winter. 



Emberiza striolata, Licht.; Hume, Ibis. 18G9; 1870, p. 399; 

 id. Str. F. vol. iii. 497; vii. 410; Blaafoni, Fast. Fers. ii. p. 258; 

 Murray, Hdhh., Zool., 8j-c., Sind, p. 179. — The Striolated Bunting. 



*' Male. — Forehead, top of the head and nape greyish white, grey or white 

 in diSerent specimens, each feather with a conspicuous linear, median black 

 streak; a narrow, pure white superciliary stripe starting from the base 

 of the bill and extending behind the eye over the ear-coverts, the lores 

 and a moderately broad stripe directly behind the eye (and immediately 

 under the white stripe], involving the upper portions of the ear-coverts 

 black ; below this another greyish white stripe, involving the rest of 

 the ear-coverts ; below this, starting from the base of the lower man- 

 dible, a greyish white stripe, which again is divided, from the greyish 

 white of the chin by a narrow inconspicuous dark streak. In the fresh 

 birds in breeding plumuge, all these streaks and stripes are as clearly 

 and sharply defined as if painted ; but at other seasons and in stuffed 

 specimens, they are not so clear ; the whole of the back, scapulars, 

 and tertials are hair brown, the former two very broadly, the latter 

 more narrowly margined with pale, more or less sandy, or even 

 rufous brown ; in many specimens the darker median streaks of the 

 back feathers are reduced to mere lines, and in some, the rufous tinge 

 on the upper back is well marked; the primaries and secondaries and 

 their coverts are a mixture of hair brown, and rich rufous (recalling 

 in colour the wing's of Mirafra erythropfera) the extent of each vary- 

 ing in different specimens, but the brown predominating in the earlier 

 primaries, and every where at the tips, and decreasing in extent in the 

 hinder part of the wing and towards the bases of the feathers*; the 

 second primary for instance will be all brown, except a narrow rufous 

 edging for the basal two-thirds of the outer web, and a broad rufous 

 stripe on the margin of the inner web for the same distance, wdiile one 

 of the later secondaries will be all rufous, except a narrow brow^n stripe 

 running down the shaft, till within one-third of the end of the feather. 



