198 MR. W. J. f. WILLIAMSON ON 



*52 (797). Emberiza aureola, Pall. The Yelloio-hreasied 



Bantinrj. 



Emherizd aureohi, Ogilvie-Giant, Fasc. M.ilnr. Birds ( 1005), p. 70 ; 

 GylJenstolpe, .Joniii. X. II. S. .Siaui 1, p. 171 ; id. 1916, p. 30. 



Bescription. Length 157 mm. (6-2 in.)- Male in vinier. Tlie 

 wliole upper plumage dull chestniit, each feather margined with ashy ; 

 tail brown, edged asliy, the outermost feathers with a broad diagonal 

 white band across the inner web, the penultimate with a similar but 

 narrower band f ; median wing-coverts white ; greater coverts dark 

 brown, edged with chestnut-brown and tipped whitish ; quills dark 

 brown, the prim.xries narrowly edged paL'r, and the inner wing- 

 feathers broadly margined with pale chestnut-brown ; the sides of the 

 liead dull yellow mingled with chestnut-brown ; the whole lower 

 plumnge yellow, with a chestnut band across the breast, and the sides 

 of the body streaked with chestnut-brown — the under tail-coverts be- 

 ing very pale whitish yellow. Male in sammer. In the spring the 

 ash}' margins of the feathers of the uppjr plumage become abraded 

 and the general colour becomes a rich maroon-chestnut; the pectoral 

 band also becomes bro.ider and of a deeper chestnut, while the forehead, 

 anterior jiart of tiie crown, lores, ear-coverts, cheeks, chin and a small 

 part of the throat become deep black. Female. Head chestnut- 

 brown, with dark brown streaks ; napj and back of neck olive-brown, 

 with indistinct brown streaks ; back olive-brown with broad dark 

 brown streaks ; rump pale chestnut, edged with grey ; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail brown, with white on the outer tail-feathers as 

 in the male ; median and greater wing-coverts dark brown, edged 

 with whitish ; quills brown — the primaries narrowly tipped and edged 

 paler on the outer webs, and the remaining feathers more broadly 

 edged with pale rnfons-brown ; sides of head mi.xed brown and yellow- 

 ish white ; chin and throat wiiitisii ; lireast and abdomen yellow, with 

 an indistinct brown band across tiie breast ; under tail-coverts fiint 

 yellow. Iinmatarc Inrd. Vevy similar to the female, exoejit that it 

 lias no chestinxt tinge on the head and rump, and that the whole 

 breast is streaked with brown. 



•f- Tlie eojouratioa of tlio tail fcitiipr^, how ^'won, is liasi-d on .idnlt 

 sppciinens in my possession. 



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