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back fulvescent, washed with rufous and broadly streaked with black; 
wing-coverts broadly edged and tipped with yellowish buff ; throat whitish, 
spotted with black like the breasggthe latter as well as the flanks yellowish 
buff, streaked with black. After the first molt the coloration of the 
adult is assumed, but the plumage is always duller and much paler, and 
in some birds, probably females, the throat is white without any chestnut. 
“Nestling.—Yellowish buff, broadly streaked with black, the head 
more rufous, and the ear-coverts rufous; underneath white, washed with 
rufous on the chin and with ochreous-buff on the throat and breast, thickly 
streaked with black on the latter as well as on the flanks and sides of the 
body; wings and tail as in adults, with the exception that the wing- 
coverts are more fulvous at tips.” (Sharpe.) 
Whitehead collected the only specimen of the little bunting which has 
been recorded from the Philippine Islands. 
698. EMBERIZA SPODOCEPHALA Pallas. 
BLACK-FACED BUNTING, 
Emberiza spodocephala PALLAS, Reise Russ. Reichs (1776), 3; 698; SHARPE, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1888), 12, 522; Grant, Ibis (1895), 258; 
WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 240; McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List 
(1906), 104. 
Catanduanes (Whitehead). Eastern Siberia; in winter to Assam, Manipur, 
China, and eastern Himalayas; accidental in Japan. 
“Adult male in summer plumage.—General color above dark brown, 
the feathers of the upper back slightly washed with rufous, edged with 
fulvous and broadly streaked down the middle with black; scapulars like 
the back; lesser wing-coverts uniform reddish brown; median and greater 
series blackish brown, externally sandy brown, margined paler and tipped 
with buffy white, more distinct on the median coverts; the inner greater 
coverts more distinctly rufous externally; primary-coverts and quills 
dusky brown, externally fringed with ashy; quills dusky brown, externally 
washed with rufous, the primaries with ashy white; inner secondaries 
resembling the inner greater coyerts; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 
coverts uniform earthy brown; center tail-feathers ight brown, the re- 
mainder dark brown, edged with lighter brown, the penultimate one 
with a large wedge-shaped mark of white near the end of the outer web, 
the outer feather almost entirely white save for an oblique black mark on 
the inner web and a small brown mark at the end of the outer web; 
head and neck all round, including the sides of the face and neck, throat, 
and chest ashy gray with a distinct wash of olive; lores, base of cheeks, 
and chin black; breast pale sulphur-yellow, whiter towards the vent; 
under tail-coverts pale sulphur-yellow; thighs ashy olive; sides of breast 
and flanks reddish brown, rather distinctly striped with black; axillars 
very pale sulphur-yellow; under wing-coverts white with dusky bases; 
