10 FKINGILLID.^. 



p. 185, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. S47 ; Murray, Avif. Bril. hid. ii. 

 P- 334> No. 869. Citrinella stewarti, Hume, Nests and Eggs hid. B. 

 p. 465. — The Whitecapped Bunting. 



Male. — Forehead and crown greyish white ; lores and a broad superciHum 

 extending to the nape black ; chin and throat black ; back, scapulars, rump, 

 upper tail coverts, flanks, and a broad band across the chest reddish chestnut ; 

 the feathers of the back in some specimens with a mesial dark streak ; cheeks 

 and ear coverts white ; breast, belly and under tail coverts greyish white or 

 rufescent white ; the under tail coverts with dark mesial streaks ; wing coverts 

 dark brown, edged with fulvous or buffy brown ; primaries and secondaries 

 pale brown, the primaries edged whitish, and the secondaries fulvous brown ; 

 tail dark brown, the outermost feather on each side white on the outer web ; 

 the shaft dark brown, the white of the inner web running obliquely from about 

 one-fourth its length at the base ; the next like the outermost, but with the 

 outer web dark brown, and narrowly edged with white. The /tv/za/^ is olive 

 brown above, the feathers with dark mesial streaks ; upper tail coverts tinged 

 rufescent ; under surface fulvous or buffy brown, the feathers mesially streaked 

 with dark brown ; bill and legs pale brown. 



Length. — 6 inches ; wings 3 to 3*1 ; tail 275 ; tarsus 0*7. 



Hab. — Sind, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, N.-W. Himalayas, Beloochistan and 

 Southern Afghanistan. Uncommon in Sind ; occurs less abundantly in the 

 Southern Districts during winter. 



12. Emberiza leucocephala, Gjji., N. Comm. Acad. Sd. hup. 



Petrov. XV. p. 480, tab. xxiii. fig. 3 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus xii. p. 549 ; 

 Murray, Avif. Brit. hid. ii. p. 334, No. 870. Emberiza pithyornis Gm., 

 Syst. Nat. p. 875 ; Eorsf. and Moore, Cat. B. E. I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 482 ; 

 Blyth, Ibis, 1868, p. 355 ; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 370. Emberiza albida, 

 Blyth, y. A. S. B. xviii. pi. 2. — The White-crowned Bunting. 



Above cinnamon rufous, the back and mantle streaked with black; the hind 

 neck and sides of the neck, also the lower back, rump and upper tail coverts 

 unstreaked rufous; crown of the head white, bounded on either side by a 

 broad black band ; base of forehead washed with rufous ; lores and eyebrow 

 chesnut ; chin, throat and a moustachial line rich vinous chesnut, middle of 

 throat with a triangular patch of white ; chest, sides of the body and flanks 

 chestnut, the flanks narrowly streaked with black ; breast, abdomen, thighs 

 and under tail coverts white ; median coverts rufous, their bases black and 

 their margins whitish ; the greater series blackish, edged with whity brown 

 and tipped with whitish ; bastard wing and primary coverts blackish ; quills 

 blackish, edged with ashy white ; the secondaries edged with brown and the 

 innermost rufous on their outer webs ; tail feathers blackish, edged with 

 whity brown, the penultimate one with a larger wedge-shaped mark of white at 

 the tip of the inner web, which is much larger on the outermost feather and 



