8 FRINGILLID.^. 



Head and neck all rounds sides of the face, throat and chest olivaceous 

 ashy ; lores, base of cheeks and chin black ; breast pale sulphur yellow ; 

 upper back and scapulars brown washed with rufous, edged with fulvous and 

 broadly streaked mesially with black ; lesser wing coverts uniform rufescent ; 

 median and greater series blackish brown edged with sandy brown and tipped 

 with buffy white ; quills dusky brown, externally washed with rufous, the pri- 

 maries with ashy white ; lower back, rump and upper tail coverts earthy 

 brown ; tail dark brown, edged with lighter brown, the centre tail feathers light 

 brown, the penultimate with a large wedge-shaped spot of white near the end 

 of the outer web, and the outer feathers entirely white except a dusky mark on 

 the inner web, and a spot near the tip of the outer web ; abdomen whitish ; 

 under tail coverts and axillaries pale sulphur yellow ; bill brown ; feet flesh 

 colour. 



Length.-— \-']^ inches ; wing 27 ; tail 27 ; tarsus 075 ; culmen o*45. 



The winter plumage of the male is not unlike that of the summer, except 

 being more olive yellow on the head and neck, and the feathers of the crown 

 tipped with rufous brown. The female is browner on the head than the male, 

 there is no black on the face or chin, the cheek stripe is yellow, and there is a 

 distinct malar streak of dusky blackish spots ; the lores, eyelids and an in- 

 distinct supercilium are yellowish buff ; sides of the body and flanks reddish 

 brown; lower abdomen and under tail coverts yellowish white. 



Hah. — Eastern Himalayas, Assam, Bhootan, Nepaul, Cachar and Munipur, 

 where it winters. Breeds in Siberia eastwards from the Yenesai Valley. 



9. Emberiza Buchanani, Biyth, J. A. S. B. xiii. p. 957 ; xvi., 



p. 780 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 150 ; id., Sfr. F. 1S79, p. 107 ; Reid, 

 Str. F. 1 881, p. 57; Murray, Avi/. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 333, No. 867. 

 Emberiza huttoni, Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 373 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 42 ; Blan- 

 ford, t. c. p. 463 ; Hume, Ibis, 187O, p 400 ; Blanf., East. Pers. ii. p. 25S ; 

 Murray, Vert. ZooL, Siud, p. 185.— The Grey-necked Bunting. 



Head, neck, nape, and sides of the neck grey ; from the lower corner of the 

 under mandible on each side is a short streak of buffy, between which and the 

 chin — which is also buff — is a streak of greyish, meeting the grey of the sides 

 of the neck ; orbital feathers whitish ; back grey, with a slight rufescent tinge, 

 the feathers being faintly striated ; rump and upper tail coverts greyish brown, 

 unstriated ; breast and rest of lower surface reddish brown or ferruginous, 

 paler on the abdomen and vent, and nearly buff on the under tail coverts ; 

 lesser coverts ferruginous ; median and greater coverts brown, edged with 

 ferruginous; primaries dull brown, margined narrowly on their outer, and 

 broadly on their inner web with pale white or rufescent w^hite ; secondaries 

 the same, but the feathers also tipped with pale rufous ; edge of the wing 

 fulvous ; tail blackish brown, the outer web of the outermost feather, except 

 at the extreme base, and half of the inner web, white ; the next outermost 



