330 FRINGILLID^E. 



Head, neck, chin, throat and breast rich chestnut ; sides of the breast 

 greenish yellow ; back and scapulars greenish yellow, the feathers mesially 

 streaked with dark brown ; the whole under surface including the under tail 

 coverts bright yellow ; wing coverts dark brown, broadly edged and tipped 

 with fulvous ; primaries, secondaries and tertiaries brown with fulvous edgings, 

 broader on the tertiaries ; tail brown, the outermost feather on each side much 

 paler, and the rest edged with greenish ; edge of the wing yellow. The 

 female wants the chestnut of the head, chin, throat and breast ; the upper 

 surface is olive brown, and the under surface very pale fulvous ; bill and legs 

 yellowish brown. 



Length. 675 to 7 ; wing 3-5 ; tail 3 ; bill at front O'S. 



The female in summer plumage is light ashy brown above, streaked with 

 blackish shaft lines, the head like the back and the hind neck -more uniform ; 

 wings and tail as in the male. 



Hab. Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, E. Turkistan, Punjab, N.-W. 

 Provinces, Oudh, Kutch, Kattiawar, Jodhpore, Jeypore, N. Guzerat, Concan, 

 Deccan and Southern India, also Khandeish and Central India. 



The adult male in winter is not unlike the male in summer, but like the 

 preceding has ashy brown edges to the feathers, which obscure the summer 

 plumage, even the yellow rump. 



864. Emberiza aureola, Pall., Reis. Russ. Reichs, ii. p. 711 ; Gm. 



Syst. Nat. i. p. 875 ; Tern., Man. d'Orn. iii, p. 232 ; Gould, B. Eur. iii. pi. 

 174; Gates, B. Br. Burm. p. 355; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 510. 

 Emberiza aureola, Bp. Comp. List* B. Eur. and N. Amer. p. 36; Jerd., B. 

 Ind. ii. p. 380; Hume, Str. F. 1874, pp. 258,481; Gates, Str.F. 1875, 

 p. 159; Blyth and Wald., B. Burm. p. 94; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S.B. xlv. 

 p. 83 ; ILume and Dav., Str. F. 1878, p. 409; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 67, 

 107 ; Scully, /, c. p. 334 ; Hingham, Str. F. ix. p. 193. Emberiza flavogu- 

 laris, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xviii. pp. 86, 811. The YELLOW-BREASTED 

 BUNTING. 



Crown of the head, back, rump and scapulars rich chestnut, margined or not 

 with faint yellowish white ; forehead, sides of the head, chin and upper throat 

 black ; lesser wing coverts smoky brown ; the median series white, and the 

 greater ones chestnut, edged with white near the tips ; quills brown, the 

 primaries edged on the outer webs with whity brown, and the rest with pale 

 chestnut ; upper tail coverts pale rufous brown ; tail brown, edged paler, the 

 outer web of the outer feathers white for two-thirds of its length from the base, 

 and the inner web with a diagonal streak of white ; the next feather generally 

 with a small obscure mark of white on the inner web ; lower throat, breast 

 and abdomen bright yellow ; a band of chestnut feathers across the breast 

 slightly fringed with black ; sides of the body yellow with brown streaks ; vent 

 and under tail coverts pale yellow, with a few obscure streaks. (Oatcs.) 



