FRINGILLARIA. 335 



Emberiza pithyornis, Gm., Syst. Nat. i. p. 875 ; Horsf. and Moore, Cat. B. 

 E. I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 482; Blyth, Ibis, 1868, p. 355 ; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 370. 

 Emberiza albida, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xviii. pi. 2. The WHITE-CROWNED 

 BUNTING. 



Above cinnamon rufous, the back and mantle streaked with black ; the hind 

 neck and sides of the neck, also the lower back, rump and upper tail 

 coverts unstreaked rufous ; crown of the head white, bounded on either 

 side by a broad black band ; base of forehead washed with rufous ; lores 

 and eyebrow chestnut ; chin, throat and a moustachial line rich vinous 

 chestnut, middle of throat with a triangular patch of white ; chest, sides 

 of the body and flanks chestnut, the flanks narrowly streaked with black ; 

 breast, abdomen, thighs and under tail coverts white ; median coverts 

 rufous, their bases black and their margins whitish ; the greater series 

 blackish edged with whity brown and tipped with whitish; bastard wing and 

 primary coverts blackish ; quills blackish, edged with ashy white ; the secon- 

 daries edged with brown and the innermost rufous on their outer webs ; tail 

 feathers blackish, edged with whity brown, the penultimate one with a large 

 wedge-shaped mark of white at the tip of the inner web, which is much 

 larger on the outermost feather and entirely white on the outer web ; auxiliaries 

 and under wing coverts white, the latter with dusky bases ; upper mandible 

 dark brown, the lower one yellowish brown ; feet pale yellowish ; iris dark 

 brown. 



Length. 6 to 6*5 inches; wing 3*75 ; tail 3*15 ; tarsus 0*75 ; culmen 0*5. 



Hab. Siberia, extending to the Himalayas. Found in Cashmere, Mus- 

 soorie, Dehra-Doon, Simla, and Quetta in Southern Afghanistan. 



Miliaria miliaria has once occurred in Sind during an extremely severe 

 winter, but the question is, should such a straggler find a place among the 

 birds proper of India. I think not, and hence do not include it. It occurs 

 in the Persian Gulf as low down as Bushire. 



Gen. Pringillaria.^azw. 



Bill longer than in Emberiza and pointed ; 1st long primary longer than 

 the inner secondaries ; tail without any white pattern on it. 



871. Pringillaria striolata, Licht., Verz. Doubi. p. 24 ; Swains., 



Classif. B. ii. p. 290; Bp., Consp. i. p. 467; Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. 

 p. 463 -Adams, Str. F. 1873, p. 388; Hume, t. c. p. 420 ; id., Sir. F. 1877, 

 p. 329; 1878, vol. ii. p. 74; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 561. 

 Emberiza striolata, Cretzschm in Rupp. Atlas, p. 15, pi. IO, fig. 9; Dresser, B. 

 Eur.iv.p. 197, pi 213; Butler, Sir. F. 1876, p. 35; Elanf., E. Pars. ii. 

 p. 258 ; Hume, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. pp. in, 410; l8 79 P- 1O 7 ; Murray, 

 Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 186. The STRIOLATED BUNTING. 

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