332 FRINGILUD/E. 



less distinctly streaked ; rump and upper tail co-verts chestnut, the latter duller 

 and tinged with grey ; wing coverts and quills dark brown edged and tipped 

 with dirty white ; lores, feathers round the eye. and a faint eyebrow isabelline ; 

 ear coverts pale ashy brown with a streak of blackish along the upper margin ; 

 cheeks, chin and throat fulvous brown, separated by a dark brown narrow 

 malar line ; under surface of the body pale sulphur yellow, the breast with a 

 few indistinct dusky streaks. 



Length. 4*5 inches ; wing 2-65 ; tail 1*85 ; tarsus 07 ; culmen 0-45. 



The young male is not unlike the female except that the head and rump 

 are chestnut. 



Hab. E. Siberia and N. and S. China, where as well as in the Indo- 

 Burmese countries and the S.-E. Himalayas it winters. In Burmah it has 

 been got in Pegu and near Rangoon. It is also recorded from Sikkim, and 

 the Bhootan Doars. 



866. Emberiza spodocephala, Pall., Rets. Russ. Reichs. Hi. p. 698 ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 465 ; Dav. el Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 329 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 374 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. 1879, P- IO 7; Seebohm, Ibis, 1880, p. 188 ; Sharpe, Cat. 

 B. Br. Mus., xii. p. 522. Emberiza melanops, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. 

 p. 554. The BLACK-FACED BUNTING. 



Head and neck all round, sides of the face, throat and chest olivaceous ashy ; 

 lores, base of cheeks and chin black ; breast pale sulphur yellow ; upper back 

 and scapulars brown washed with rufous, edged with fulvous and broadly 

 streaked mesially with black ; lesser wing coverts uniform rufescent ; median 

 and greater series blackish brown edged with sandy brown and tipped with buffy 

 white ; quills dusky brown, externally washed with rufous, the primaries with 

 ashy white ; lower back, rump and upper tail coverts earthy brown ; tail dark 

 brown, edged with lighter brown, the centre tail feathers light brown, the pen- 

 ultimate with a large wedge-shaped spot of white near the end of the outer 

 web, and the outer feathers entirely white except a dusky mark on the inner 

 web, and a spot near the tip of the outer web ; abdomen whitish ; under tail 

 coverts and axillaries pale sulphur yellow ; bill brown ; feet flesh colour. 



Length. 4*75 inches ; wing 2*7 ; tail 2-7 ; tarsus 0*75 ; culmen 0-45. 



The winter plumage of the male is not unlike that of the summer, except 

 being more olive yellow on the head and neck and the feathers of the crown 

 tipped with rufous brown. The female is browner on the head than the male, 

 there is no black on the face or chin, the cheek stripe is yellow and there is a 

 distinct malar streak of dusky blackish spots ; the lores, eyelids and an in- 

 distinct supercilium are yellowish buff ; sides of the body and flanks reddish 

 brown ; lower abdomen and under tail coverts yellowish white. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas, Assam, Bhootan, Nepaul, Cachar and Munipur, 

 where it winters. Breeds in Siberia eastwards from the Yenesai Valley. 



