574 Mr. J. Scully on the 



151. Petronia stulta (Gmel.). 



A winter visitor, and common from the third week in No- 

 vember to the third week in March. In thirteen males the 

 wings varied in length from 3"9 to 4*2 inches, and in four 

 females from Zl to 3-9. 



152. Emberiza leucocephala, Gmel. 



The Pine-Bunting is tolerably common in the main valley 

 in mild winters : it often associates with Emberiza stracheyi, 

 but can always be distinguished from that species by its note. 

 In the males the wings measured 3'6 to 3*8 inches, in the 

 females 3'4 to 3*5. One male bird had the mandibles crossed 

 as in Loxia, the maxilla to the right. 



153. Emberiza stracheyi, Moore. 



This can hardly be regarded as a very good species. Gilgit 

 specimens are in many respects intermediate in coloration 

 between Emberiza cia and E. stracheyi from Simla. 



A nestling, obtained on the 22nd July at an elevation of 

 9000 feet, had the head, mantle, and back rufous brown, all 

 the feathers with broad central black streaks; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts rufous, with narrow central black streaks ; 

 two well-marked rufous- buff wing-bands formed by the tips of 

 the coverts; inner secondaries broadly edged on outer web with 

 rufous ; rest of wings and the tail as in the adult ; supercilium 

 pale fulvous ; lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts dusky, the feathers 

 with pale-buff margins ; chin greyish white ; rest of under 

 surface buff, the throat, breast, and flanks boldly streaked 

 with blackish ; lower tail-coverts unstreaked rufous buff. 



154. Emberiza hortulana, Linn. 



This species is rare in Grilgit, and only occurs on passage. 

 I obtained a male on 9th May which measured — wing 3*5 

 inches, tail 2'75, tarsus 0"85, culmeu 0'5. This specimen 

 agrees completely with examples of E. hortulana from Nor- 

 way with which I have compared it. I have examined the 

 type of Emberiza shah, Bonap., from Persia, in the Paris 

 Museum ; it is certainly nothing but an example of E. 

 hortulana. 



