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blackish brown on the outer web, and for nearly two-thirds its length on the 

 inner web, blackish brown, the rest white on their inner web only ; centre tail 

 feathers edged with pale rufous ; bill reddish ; legs pale brown. 



Length. — 5'75 to 6 inches ; wing 3*5 ; tail 3 ; tarsi 0'75. 



Hab. — Sind, Punjab, N.-W Provinces, Central India, Beloochistan, Persia 

 and Afghanistan. Occurs also in Kutch, Rajputana, Guzerat, Concan and the 

 Deccan. Everywhere considered with the White-necked Bunting a delicacy. 

 Most people have a slice of ham or bacon dished with them if made into pie. 



Specimens from Jeempeer and Jacobabad (Sind), and Quetta and Dozan 

 (Beloochistan), have the chin and the streak above the greyish moustachial 

 line unspotted buff, except in a single specimen from Dozan. 



10. Emberiza stracheyi, Moore, P. z, s. 1855, p. 215, pi. 112, 



Horsf. and Moore, Cat. B. E. I. Co. Mas. ii. p. 4S3 ; Jerd., B. Ltd. ii, 

 p. 372; Brooks, Str, F, 1875, p. 254 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 107; Ward- 

 laiv-Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 65 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 79 ; Marshall, Ibis, 

 1884, p. 419; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 333, No. 868. Emberiza (^ia 

 (nee. L.), Jerd., B. Ind. ii, p. 371 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1868, p. 175 ; Cock, and 

 Marsh., Str. F. 1S73, p. 357. — The White-necked Bunting. 



Above rufescent brown with black mesial streaks ; the rump and upper tail 

 coverts unstreaked ; crown of the head pale bluish grey, with a broad hand of 

 black on either side of the crown ; supercilium ashy white ; lores and eyelids 

 black, continued as a streak over the ear coverts, which are ashy whitish and 

 separated from the throat by a streak of black, which meets the other black 

 line ; median and greater zving coverts tipped ivith rufous but not forming 

 distinct zuing bars as in E. Cia ; quills blackish, the primaries margined with 

 ashy whitish, the secondaries with pale rufous, the inner ones being rufous on 

 the inner webs also ; middle tail feathers pale rufous, black in the centre, the 

 remainder blackish, edged with sandy rufous, the penultimate feather with a 

 large wedge-shaped mark of white at the tip of the inner web, larger on the 

 outermost, which is also externally margined with white ; under surface of the 

 body pale cinnamon rufous washed with isabelline. Bill dark brown or black, 

 the base of the lower mandible bluish ; legs and feet fleshy brownish ; iris 

 dark brown. 



Length. — 6 to 6-8 inches ; wing 3-1 ; tail 2-85 ; tarsus 07 ; culmen 0-5. 



Hab. — From Eastern Beloochistan and Cashmere eastwards to Kumaon, 

 wintering slightly to the southward. It is found plentifully in Gilgit, also at 

 Dhurmsala, Murree, Kotegurh, Simla, INIussoorie, and Bhawulpoor in Sind, 

 also at Mutiana in the Punjab. 



11. Emberiza stewarti, Biyth, J. A. s. B. xxiii. p. 215,- Horsf. 



and Moore, Cat. B. E- 1. Co. Mus. ii- p. 485 ; Jerd., B . Ind. ii. p. 374 ; 

 Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 400 ; Cock afid Marsh., Str. F. 1S78, p. 112 ; Hume, Str. 

 F. 1879, p. 107; Murray, Str. F. 187S, p. 112; id.. Vert. ZooU Sind, 



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