334 FRINGILLID/E. 



distinct wing bars as in E. Cia ; quills blackish, the primaries margined with 

 ashy whitish, the secondaries with pale rufous, the inner ones being rufous on 

 the inner webs also ; middle tail feathers pale rufous, black in the centre, the 

 remainder blackish, edged with sandy rufous, the penultimate feather with a 

 large wedge-shaped mark of white at the tip of the inner web, larger on the 

 outermost, which is also externally margined with white ; under surface of the 

 body pale cinnamon rufous washed with isabelline. Bill dark brown or black, 

 the base of the lower mandible bluish ; legs and feet fleshy brownish ; iris 

 dark brown. 



Length. 6 to 6-8 inches; wing yi ; tail 2-85 ; tarsus 07; culmeri 0-5. 



Hab. From Eastern Beloochistan and Cashmere eastwards to Kumaon, 

 wintering slightly to the southward. It is found plentifully in Gilgit, also at 

 Dhurmsala, Murree, Kotegurh, Simla, Mussoorie, and Bhawulpoor in Sind, 

 also at Mutiana in the Punjab. 



869. Emberiza stewarti, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiii. p. 215 ; Horsf. 



and Moore, Cat. B. E. / % Co. Mus. ii. p. 485 ; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 374 ; Hume, 

 Ibis, 1870, p. 400, Cock and Marsh, Sir. F. 1878, p. 112; Hume, Sir. F. 

 1879, p. 107; Murray, Sir. F. 1878, p. 112 ; id., Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 185, 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 547. Citrinella stewarti, Hume, Nests and 

 Eggs, Ind. B. p. 465. The WHITE-CAPPED BUNTING. 



Male. Forehead and crown greyish white ; lores and a broad supercilium 

 extending to the nape black ; chin and throat black ; back, scapulars, rump, 

 upper tail coverts, flanks, and a broad band across the chest reddish chestnut ; 

 the feathers of the back in some specimens with a mesial dark streak ; cheeks 

 and ear coverts white ; breast, belly and under tail coverts greyish white or 

 rufescent white ; the under tail coverts with dark mesial streaks ; wing coverts 

 dark brown, edged with fulvous, or buffy brown ; primaries and secondaries 

 pale brown, the primaries edged whitish, and the secondaries fulvous brown ; 

 tail dark brown, the outermost feather on each side white on the outer web ; 

 the shaft dark brown, the white of the inner web running obliquely from about 

 one-fourth its length at the base ; the next like the outermost, but with the 

 outer web dark brown, and narrowly edged with white. The female is olive 

 brown above, the feathers with dark mesial streaks ; upper tail coverts tinged 

 rufescent ; under surface fulvous or buffy brown, the feathers mesially streaked 

 with dark brown ; bill and legs pale brown. 



Length. 6 inches; wings 3 to 3-1 ; tail 2-75 ; tarsus 07. 



Hab. Sind, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, N.-W. Himalayas, Beloochistan and 

 Southern Afghanistan. Uncommon in Sind, and occurs less abundantly in 

 the Southern Districts during winter. 



870. Emberiza loucocephala, Gm., N. Comm. Acad. Sti. imp. 



Petrov. xv. p. 480, tab. xxiii. p. fig. 3 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 549. 



