EMBERIZA. 3 



Oales, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 343 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mas. xii. p. 487 ; 

 Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p 327, No. 860. Oc3Tis oinops, Hodgs., Icon, 

 iticd. in Br. Mus. Pa.^seres, pi. 292.— The Dwarf Bunting. 



Upper plumage streaked with black, rufous and grey ; forehead to nape 

 over the crown light chestnut and a similar line over the ear coverts ; lores, 

 sides of the face, ear coverts and throat light or vinous chestnut, with a black 

 moustachial line extending behind the ear coverts ; hind neck and sides of the 

 neck pale chestnut streaked with whitish ; chin and upper throat pale chestnut ; 

 lower throat and under surface of the body dull white, streaked with black ; 

 under wing coverts and axillaries white ; wing coverts brown edged with rufous, 

 the median series broadly tipped with rufous forming a wing bar ; bastard 

 wing, primary coverts and quills blackish, fringed on the outer web with 

 brown, the primaries margined with ashy brown and the secondaries with rufous ; 

 tail brown or blackish brown edged with lighter brown, the penultimate 

 feathers with a white diagonal or wedge-shaped bar of* white on the inner web, 

 the outer pair with a larger band extending to both webs. 



In winter the male has the black bands fringed with rufous and the head is 

 not so rufous. 



The female in summer is similar to the male in winter, but it wants the 

 chestnut on the throat which is white and bounded by a black moustachial line 

 on both sides. Bill horny ; legs pale fleshy ; irides brown. 



Length. — 5*25 inches; wing 2*8 ; tail 2*4 ; tarsus 0*7 ; culmen o'4. 



Hab. — Northern Europe, wintering in the Himalayas, Assam, Burmah and 

 Tenasserim. Recorded from Nepaul, Sikkim, Shillong, Khasia hills, Sylhet, 

 Munipoor and Mooleyit in Tenasserim. It occurs in small flocks in bare spots 

 of ground covered with low bushes. According to Seebohm it breeds in 

 Siberia, building on the ground, amongst dead leaves, a nest made of moss 

 and grass, thickly lined with fine grass. Eggs, 5 in number, pale grey, blotched 

 and spotted with darker and paler grey. 



3. Emberiza fucata. Pall., Reis. Russ. Reicks, iii. p. 608 ; Gm., 

 Syst. Nat. i. p. 871 ; yerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 375 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 42; 

 Beavan, /. r. p. 41 ; Gould, B. Asia, v. pi. 9 ; Godzoin-Austen, y. A. S. B. 

 1874, p. 171 ; Blyth and Wald., B. Burin, p. 95 ; Hume and Dav., Str. F. 

 1878, p. 407 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 107 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 351 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 493; Murray, Avif. Brit. hid. ii. p. 328, 

 No. 861. Euspiza fucata, Blyth, J . A. S. B. xxiii. p. 215. Cilrinella fucata, 

 Hume, Nestsand Eggs, Ind. B. p. 465 ; id. and Oates, Str. F. 1875, p. 157. — 

 The Grey-headed Bunting. 



Male in breeding plumage. — Head, nape and sides of the neck grey, 

 streaked with black ; back and mantle reddish brown, also streaketl with 

 black; rump uniform reddish brown; upper tail coverts isabelline with 

 dark shaft streaks ; tail dark brown, with russet edges on the outer webs ; the 



