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feathers. Specimens differ widely in this respect; in some the 
greyish-white is a mere edging to dusky black feathers; in 
others only a few black spots and streaks peep out of an almost 
unbroken grey, and this among specimens killed at the same time, 
and of apparently the same age; the lower breast and the whole 
lower parts of the body are pale greyish-rufous, all the bases of 
the feathers (only seen if their tips are lifted), being a sort of 
bluish-dusky ; the axillaries, wing-lining, and, in fact, the whole 
lower surface of the wings, except the points of the quills, a 
pale delicate salmon-rufous. 
“ The female only differs in being generally somewhat smaller, 
in having the white, grey, and black of the head, neck, throat 
and breast much duller (and in many specimens overcast with 
a sandy or pale-rufous shade), in the various stripes being less 
well marked, and in having the dark spots and streaks of the 
throat almost obsolete.”—Hume, “ Ibis,” 1869. 
The Striolated Bunting occurs as a winter visitant to Sind, 
Rajputana, Kutch and Guzerat. It does not occur in the 
Deccan. 
Genus, Euspiza, Bonap. 
Bill strong, sub-conic, with the mandibles about equal, and 
scarcely a trace of a palatal knob; wings and tail rather long, 
firm. 
Kuspiza melanocephala, Scop. 
721.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 378; Butler, Guzerat; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 497; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 417; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 188; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 129. 
THE BLACK-HEADED BUNTING. 
Length, 75 to 8; wing, 38 to 4; tail, 3; tarsus, 0-9; bill at 
front, 0:5. 
Bill yellowish-brown ; irides light-brown ; legs yellowish-brown. 
Whole head, including the ear-coverts, black, the feathers 
generally (%¢., winter) edged light-brown, this disappearing 
towards spring; back and scapulars rich chesnut, passing to 
yellowish on the rump and upper tail-coverts, the feathers being 
edged with bright-yellow, passing behind the ear-coverts to the 
nape; the side of breast chesnut, continuous with the color of 
the back. 
The Black-headed Bunting is a rather common cold weather 
visitant to all parts of the region. It is very destructive in the 
corn fields, when jowaree, bayri, and other cereals are ripening. 
Euspiza luteola, Sparr. 
722.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 378; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 498 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
