328 FRINGILLID/E. 



In winter the male has the black bands fringed with rufous and the head is 

 not so rufous. 



The female in summer is similar to the male in winter, but it wants the 

 chestnut on the throat which is white and bounded by a black moustachial line 

 on both sides. Bill horny; legs pale fleshy ; irides brown. 



Length. 5-25 inches ; wing 2'8 ; tail 2'4; tarsus 07 ; culmen 0-4. 



Hab. Northern Europe, wintering in the Himalayas, Assam, Burmah and 

 Tenasserim. Recorded from Nepaul, Sikkim, Shillong, Khasia hills, Sylhet, 

 Munipoor and Mooleyit in Tenasserim, It occurs in small flocks in bare 

 spots of ground covered with low bushes. According to Seebohm it breeds in 

 Siberia, building on the ground, amongst dead leaves, a nest made of moss 

 and grass, thickly lined with fine grass. Eggs, 5 in number, pale grey, 

 blotched and spotted with darker and paler grey. 



861. Emberiza fUCata, Pall, Reis. Rnss. Reichs, \\\. p. 608 ; Gm. 

 Syst. Nat. i. p. 871 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 375; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 42; 

 Beavan, t. c. p. 41 ; Gould, B. Asia, v. pi. 9; Godwin-Auslen, J. A. S. B. 

 1874, p. 171 ; Blyth and Wald., B. Burm. p. 95 ; Hume and Dav,, Str. F. 

 1878, p. 407 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 107 ; Dates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 351 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 493. Euspiza fucata, Blyth, J . A. S. B. 

 xxiii. p. 215. Citrinella fucata, Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 465; id. 

 and Gates, Str. F. 1875, p. 157. The GREY-HEADED BUNTING. 



Male in breeding plumage. Head, nape and sides of the neck grey, 

 streaked with black ; back and mantle reddish brown, also streaked with 

 black ; rump uniform reddish brown ; upper tail coverts isabelline with 

 dark shaft streaks ; tail dark brown, with russet edges on the outer webs ; the 

 outer feathers white on the outer web and with a diagonal patch of the same 

 on the inner ; the next pair dark brown with a patch of white on the inner web 

 near the tip ; lesser and median wing coverts chestnut, the latter with black 

 shaft stripes, the greater series and inner secondaries dark or dusky brown 

 margined broadly on both webs with reddish brown ; primaries and secon- 

 daries brown, also margined on the outer webs with reddish brown ; lores 

 and feathers round the eye greyish brown ; ear coverts chestnut ; cheeks and 

 a line below the ears white, below which latter again is a thin black line which 

 widens on the neck and forms an interrupted pectoral gorget, below which 

 again is another of chestnut ; chin and throat white ; under surface of the body 

 isabelline or fawn colour, the flanks streaked with black. 



In winter the male has an olive brown head, much mixed with grey ; 

 the black gorget line is not so evident and the chestnut streak below is 

 wanting. Bill dark fleshy brown ; iris brown. 



Length. $-1$. to 6*5 inches ; tail 27 ; wing 2-8; tarsus O'8 ; culmen 0-5. 



Hab. Eastern Siberia and Japan. Resident in the N.-W. Himalayas 

 migrating to the Burmese countries and the plains of India during winter. 



