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155. Emberiza huttoni, Blyth. 



Fairly common ou passage througliout the month of Sep- 

 tember, not obtained in spring. Gilgit specimens are iden- 

 tical with examples from Kandahar, whence the specimens 

 originally described by Blyth were collected. 



156. Emberiza STEWARTi (Blyth). 



Common in the lower parts of the Gilgit valley, from Ga- 

 kuch to the Indus ; it arrives during the first week in April, 

 and leaves for the south again about the middle of September. 

 Eight males have the wings 3 to 3'25 inches, and four females 

 2'8 to 2*87. A young male shot in the first week in Sep- 

 tember only differs from the adult female in having rufous 

 margins to the outer webs and tips of the latter secondaries, 

 and in showing a faint indication of the chestnut breast-band 

 of the male bird. 



157. Emberiza schceniclus, Linn. 



A winter visitor in small numbers from December to March. 

 A male shot in Gilgit on the 15th December measured — 

 length 6'3 inches, wing 3*3, tail 3, tarsus 0*75, bill to gape 

 0*'12. Gilgit examples of this species agree completely with 

 specimens from Eastern Turkestan, Kandahar, and Asia 

 Minor. As to " E. schceniclus, var. B, Pallas," mentioned 

 antea, p. 81, this has been shown by Mr. Seebohm (Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 39) to be E. passerina, Pallas, a species quite distinct from 

 E. schceniclus, Linn. 



158. EuspiZA luteola, Sparrm. 



Merely a bird of passage with us ; obtained from the third 

 week in August to about the middle of September, when it 

 was doubtless on its way south. In ' The Ibis,' 1880, p. QQ, 

 Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay gives an interesting account of the 

 nidification of this species. He had not then met with any 

 account of its breeding-habits, having overlooked my note on 

 the subject in ' Stray Feathers,' 1876, p. 167. I found the 

 bird breeding abundantly about Yarkand in 1875. 



EuspizA, sp. 



A single immature bird of this genus, a male, shot in Gilgit 



