EMBERIZA. 333 



867- Emberiza Buchanan!, Biytk, J. A. S. B. xiii. p. 957, xvi., 



p. 780; Hume, Sir. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 150; id., Sir. F. 1879, p. 107; Reid, 

 Str. F. i88i,p. 57. Emberiza huttoni, Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 373 j Blyth, 

 Ibis, 1867, p. 42 ; Blanford, t. c. p. 463 ; Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 400 ; Blanf., 

 East. Pers. ii. p. 258; Murray, Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 185. The GREY-NECKED 

 BUNTING. 



Head, neck, nape, and sides of the neck grey ; from the lower corner of the 

 under mandible on each side is a short streak of buffy, between which and the 

 c hin which is also buff is a streak of greyish, meeting the grey of the sides of 

 the neck ; orbital feathers whitish ; back grey, with a slight rufescent tinge, the 

 feathers being faintly striated ; rump and upper tail coverts greyish brown, un- 

 striated ; breast and rest of lower surface reddish brown or ferruginous, paler 

 on the abdomen and vent, and nearly buff on the under tail- coverts; lesser 

 coverts ferruginous; median and greater coverts brown, edged with ferru- 

 ginous ; primaries dull brown, margined narrowly on their outer, and broadly 

 on their inner web with pale white or rufescent white ; secondaries the same, 

 but the feathers also tipped with pale rufous ; edge of the wing fulvous ; tail 

 blackish brown, the outer web of the outermost feather, except at the extreme 

 base, and half of the inner web, white ; the next outermost blackish brown on 

 the outer web, and for nearly two-thirds its length on the inner web, blackish 

 brown, the rest white on their inner web only ; centre tail feathers edged with 

 pale rufous ; bill reddish ; legs pale brown. 



Length. 5*75 to 6 inches ; wing 3-5 ; tail 3 ; tarsi 75. 



Hob* Sind, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Central India, Beloochistan, Persia 

 and Afghanistan. Occurs also in Kutch, Rajputana, Guzerat, Concan and the 

 Deccan. 



Specimens from Jeempeer and Jacobabad (Sind), and Quetta and Dozan 

 (Beloochistan), have the chin and the streak above the greyish moustachral line 

 unspottted buff, except in a single specimen from Dozan. 



868. Emberiza stracheyi, Moore, P. z. S. 1855, p. 215, pi. 112; 



Horsf. and Moore, Cat. B. E. I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 483 ; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. 

 p. 372; Brooks, Str. F. 1875, p. 254; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 107; Ward- 

 law-Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 65 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 79; Marshall, Ibis, 

 1884, p. 419. Emberiza Cia (nee. L.), Jerd., B. Ind.ii.p. 371 ; Beavan, Ibis, 

 1868, p. 175; Cock and Marsh, Str. F. 1873, p. 357. The WHITE-NECKED 

 BUNTING. 



Above rufescent brown with black mesial streaks ; the rump and upper tail 

 coverts unstreaked ; crown of the head pale bluish grey, with a broad band of 

 black on either side of the crown ; supercilium ashy white ; lores and eyelids 

 black, continued as a streak over the ear coverts which are ashy whitish and 

 separated from the throat by a streak of black, which meets the other black 

 line ; median and greater wing coverts tipped with rufous but not forming 



