EMBERIZA. 7 



October and leaving in INTay. Like the last it affects corn crops. The nest is 

 said to be placed on or near the ground in bushes. It is made of dry bents 

 and lined with hair. Eggs, 4—6, greenish, clouded with purplish grey and 

 marked with some dark scrawls. 



7. Emberiza rutila, Pall., Rets. Russ. Reichs. hi. p. 69S ; Blylh, 

 B. Burm. p. 95 ; 'Dav. et Oust. Ois Chine, p- 331 ; Ward I aw -Ramsay, Ibis, 



1877, p. 462 ; Oates, Sir. F. x. p. 234; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 5 14 ; 



Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 331, No. 865. Euspiza rutila, Bp., Cotisp. i. 

 p. 469 ; Hume and Dav., Str. F. 1878, p. 408 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, ?• ^^7- 

 Citrinella rutila, Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 117. — The Chestnut Bunting. 



Entire head and upper breast and the whole upper plumage including the 

 wing coverts chestnut,' the feathers, except those of the rump, fringed with 

 olive greyish ; primaries, secondaries and primary coverts brown, the primaries 

 edged on the outer webs with ashy and the inner secondaries with chestnut ; 

 tail brown, margined with olive or lighter brown, the two outer feathers with a 

 small whitish mark near the tip on the outer web ; foreneck chestnut, rest of 

 under surface of the body sulphur yellow ; the thighs and under tail coverts 

 sulphur yellow ; sides of the body and flanks olive greenish, streaked with 

 dusky ; axillaries and under wing coverts yellowish white, the bases yellow. 

 Legs and feet grey ; iris brownish rufous. 



Length. — 5 inches; wing 295 ; tail 2*25 ; tarsus 07; culmen 0*45. 

 The female has the top of the head, neck, back, and scapulars olive brown, 

 broadly streaked with black on the mantle and back ; hind neck the same but 

 less distinctly streaked ; rump and upper tail coverts chestnut, the latter duller 

 and tinged with grey ; wing coverts and quills dark brown, edged and tipped 

 with dirty white ; lores, feathers round the eye, and a faint eyebrow isibelline ; 

 ear coverts pale ashy brown with a streak of blackish along the upper margin ; 

 cheeks, chin and throat fulvous brown, separated by a dark brown narrow 

 malar line ; under surface of the body pale sulphur yellow, the breast with a 

 few indistinct dusky streaks. 



Length. — 4"5 inches; wing 2'65 ; tail i 85; tarsus 07; culmen o'45. 



The young male is not unlike the female except that the head and rump 

 are chestnut. 



Hab. — E. Siberia and N. and S. China, where as well as in the Indo- 

 Burmese countries and the S.-E. Himalayas it winters. In Burmah it has 

 been got in Pegu and near Rangoon. It is also recorded from Sikkim and 

 the Bhootan Doars. 



8 Emberiza SpodOCepliala, Pall., Reis. Reichs. iii. p. 698; Bp., 

 Consp. i. p. 465 ; Dav. et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 329 ; Jerd., B. hid. ii. p. 374 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. 1879, p, 107; Seebohm, Ibis, 1 880, p. 188; Sharpe, Cat. B. 

 Br. Mus, xii. p. 522 ; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 332, No. 866. Emberiza 

 melanops, Blyth, J . A. S. B. xiv. p. 554. — The Black-k.vced Bunting. 



