576 Mr. J. Scully on the 



on the 28th August, differs so much from examples of E. 

 luteola of the same sex and age, that it probably represents 

 a distinct species. The following is a description : — Head, 

 hind neck, and back with all the feathers broadly streaked 

 down the centre with brownish black, and their margins buff, 

 suffused with greenish yellow ; rump and upper tail -coverts 

 greenish yellow, with narrow dark-brown shaft-streaks ; rec- 

 trices dark brown, the outermost pair paler, and all with pale 

 yellowish margins to the outer webs and tips ; wing-coverts, 

 primaries, and secondaries brown, all margined on the outer 

 webs and tips with sullied white; lores and chin buff; cheeks 

 and ear-coverts sandy brown, faintly washed with yellow ; 

 whole lower surface dull yellow ; the throat, breast, and 

 flanks boldly striped down the centres of the feathers with 

 dark brown ; axillaries pale yellow, with greyish-white bases ; 

 under wing-coverts greyish white, spotted with brown near 

 the edge of the wing. Longest secondaries 0'8 shorter than 

 longest primary, intermediate in length between the eighth 

 and ninth quills. Length 6'5 inches, wing 3'3, tail 2*7, tarsus 

 0-77, culmen 0-52. 



This bird differs from immature E. luteola in having the 

 throat and breast striped with brown, and in the wing 

 being differently shaped. In E. luteola the difference be- 

 tween the longest secondaries and longest primaries averages 

 0*57, the longest secondary being intermediate in length 

 between the sixth and seventh quills. In the British Museum 

 there is an undetermined specimen of a Bunting, received 

 from the Moscow Museum, coloured exactly like my Gilgit 

 bird ; it measures — wing 3'4 inches, tail 2*8, eulmen 0"53, 

 secondaries short of point of wing 0'85. This bird is cer- 

 tainly not any stage of E. aureola. I do not propose any 

 name for it, as I have only examined specimens in immature 

 plumage. 



159. EUSPIZA MELANOCEPHALA (Scop.). 



This species merely passes through the district on migration, 

 and is rare. I obtained only one immature specimen, on the 

 17th September. In immature dress this Bunting can only 



