268 ‘ EMBERIZIN &. 
throughout the region, breeding during the hot season, in holes 
in trees, &c. The eggs, three or four in number, are greenish-white 
in color, but so much spotted, smudged, streaked, and clouded 
with dark sepia-brown as to leave little of the ground-color 
visible. They measure 0°74 by 0°55. 
SuB-FAMILY, Emberizine. 
Bill with the upper mandible typically smaller and more com- 
pressed than the lower, which is broader, equal in a few; a 
palatal protuberance in many ; commissure usually sinuate ; tail 
moderate, even or emarginate. 
Genus, Emberiza. 
Bill of varied strength and the mandibles more or less unequal, 
usually somewhat lengthened; wings moderate or rather long, 
with the first quill a little shorter than the second and third, 
which are longest; tail of moderate length; the outermost 
feathers more or less marked with white. 
Emberiza buchanani, Bly. 
716.—E. huttoni, Blyth._—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 373 ; 
Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 497; Deccan, 
Stray Feathers, Vol. 1X, p. 416; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology 
of Sind, p. 185. 
THE GREY-NECKED BUNTING. 
Length, 5°75 to 6; wing, 3°5; tail, 3; tarsus, 0°75. 
Bill reddish ; irides brown ; feet fleshy-brown. 
Head, neck, nape, and sides of the neck, grey; from the 
the lower corner of the under mandible on each side 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 faintly striated; rump and upper 
tail-coverts greyish-brown or ferruginous, paler on the abdomen 
and vent, and nearly buff on the under tail-coverts; lesser-co- 
verts ferruginous; median and greater-coverts brown, edged 
with ferrugimous; primaries dull brown, margined narrowly on 
their outer, and broadly on their inner web with pale-white or 
rufescent-white ; secondaries the same, but the feathers also 
tipped with pale-rufous; edge of the wing fulvous; tail black- 
ish-brown, the outer web of the outermost feather, except at 
the extreme base, and half of the inner web, white; the next 
outermost, 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. 
The Grey-necked Bunting is a not uncommon winter visitant 
to all parts of the district ; it is much addicted to frequenting 
stony hills, 
