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brmineo slriato ; capite cristato hriinneo sfriato ; reciricibiis 

 brunneis rujo marsinatis. 

 Statura minor quam praicedentis. 



99. Alauda Dukhunensis. Al. corpnre sujirh f^risea-brunneo, 



plumis in mediofusco-brunneo nolatis ; subtus albescens, pectore 

 strigdqne superciliari rii/escentibus ; redricibusjiisco-brunneis, 

 duabus lateralibus albo marginatis. 



Irides intensė brunneae. Longitudo corporis 6tV unc* 

 caudce 2. 

 Grass seeds onlyfound in the stomach. Frequents stony plains. 



Genus Mirąfra, Horsf. 



100. Mirafra phcenicura , Frankl. 



Tliis bird is characterized by the lightness, shortness^ abruptness, 

 and sudden ascents and descents of its flight. Irides yellow- 

 brovvn. Granivorous. 



Genus Emberiza, Auct. Bunting. 



101. Emberiza melanocephaln, Scop. 



This native of Corfu is common to Western India. It appears in 

 considerable flocks at the ripening of the bread grain Joiuaree 

 {Andropogon Sorghum) in December. Irides intense brown. 

 Lengtli 7-rV inches : tail 3 inches. Granivorous. Aliied to Emb. 

 luteola, Mus. Carls. vol. 4. t. 93. 



102. Emberiza hortulana, Linn. Red-brovon Bunting. 



This, although not absolutely identical, is so closely aliied to the 

 European bird that Colonel Sykes cannot separate it. Irides 

 intense brown. Length 7a^ inches ; tail 3 inches. Grass seeds 

 only found in the stomach. Bird soh'tary. 



103. Emberiza cristata, Vigors, Proceed. Zool. Soc. I. p. 35. 

 Length 65 inches : tail 2A inches. Rare in Dukhun, and found 



only on rocky and bushy mountains. Female of a uniform 

 sooty brovvn. Grass seeds only found in the stomach. Native 

 of China and Nepaul as well as Dukhun. 

 104'. Emberiza subcristata. Emb. supra intense brunnea, plumis 

 brunneo pallidiori marginatis į subtus pallide brunnea, Jusco 

 striata; alarum plumarum rectricumgue lateralium marginibus, 

 rectricibusgue duabus mediis castaneis ; capite subcristato. 

 Irides intense brunneae. Rostrum rufo-brunneum. Longi- 

 tudo corporis G-^^^ unc, caudce S^V. 

 Sexes alike in size and pluraage. Birds rare and solitary, and 

 found only in the open spaces on high mountains. This bird is 

 pronounced in Europe to be the female of Emb. cristata; 

 but setting aside the fact of botli sexes of each bird being in 

 the present collection, their localities are different, and they 

 were never seen together by Colonel Sykes. 



Genus Linaria, Bechst. Linnet. 

 105. Linaria Amandava. FringiUa Amaudava, Linn. 

 These beautiful little birds, so common in Goojrat, are rare in 

 Dukhun. 



