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black down each feather ; rump more rufous ; superciliary stripe, chin, throat, and upper chest 

 bluish grey; lores, feathers behind the eye, and moustachial streaks black; remainder of 

 under surface cinnamon rufous, brightest on the chest ; primaries and secondaries blackish 

 brown, margined with rufous; middle tail feathers black, broadly margined with rufous; 

 remainder of tail black, but with the greater part of the inner webs of the two outer pairs 

 white, [w. p. P. and T. w.J 



2. Distribution. As a breeding species it is chiefly confined to the countries bordering on 

 the Mediterranean, including North-west Africa, the Iberian, Italian, and Balkan Peninsulas, 

 Asia Minor, and Syria ; but it is also found breeding locally in S. France, Switzerland, the Rhine 

 valley in Germany, north to Bingen, and locally in Austria and the Transylvanian mountains. 

 In Russia it breeds in the Crimea and the Caucasus. Though resident throughout the greater 

 part of its range, it is migratory in Middle Europe, and winters in North Africa. Five British 

 records, four from Sussex and one from Kent. In Central and Eastern Asia it is replaced by 

 allied forms, which winter in India and China. [F. c. R. J.] 



EAST SIBERIAN MEADOW-BUNTING [Emberiza, cioides Brandt]. 



1. Description. Closely resembles the meadow-bunting in general appearance, but is 

 smaller and lacks the small black spot on the chin. The sexes differ in coloration. The male 

 has the upper parts brownish, with distinct mesial streaks of black on the mantle and back ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts uniform rich chesnut ; primaries and secondaries blackish brown, 

 the former narrowly fringed and the latter widely margined on the outer web with chesnut ; 

 middle tail feathers chesnut, broadly streaked down the middle with black, second and third 

 pairs black, and the two outer pairs black on the outer webs and basal third, and white on the 

 terminal two- thirds; chin and throat greyish white; a chesnut collar across the fore-neck, 

 fringed with grey; remainder of under surface brownish buff, darkest on the sides and 

 flanks. The female is less richly coloured, and lacks the greyish white throat, these parts being 

 greyish ash. [w. p. p. and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. The form, which has once occurred in England, is the eastern race of 

 this species, E. cioides castaneiceps Moore, which breeds in Eastern Siberia (Ussuria and the 

 Amur valley), Manchuria, Korea, and part of China, wintering in China. In West Siberia 

 and Turkestan it is replaced by the western form, but the limits of the two are imperfectly 

 known. One was caught at Flamborough, "Yorks, in Nov. 1886. [F. c. R. J.] 



RUSTIC-BUNTING [Emberiza rustica Pallas. French, bruant rustique; German, Waldam- 

 mer ; Italian, zigolo boschereccio]. 



1. Description. Differs from the pine-bunting in having the top of the head and the 

 ear-coverts black. The sexes differ in coloration, and there is a slight difference in the winter 

 plumage. Length 5 in. [127 mm.]. Top of the head and ear-coverts black, separated from one 

 another by a broad eyebrow of white ; remainder of the upper surface chesnut, with mesial 

 streaks of black on the mantle and back, each feather fringed with ash-grey; median and greater 

 wing-coverts black, with white tips, forming two bars of white across the wing ; primary quills 

 and secondaries blackish brown, the former slightly fringed with ash and the latter widely 

 margined with whitish buff and tipped with pale chesnut ; middle pairs of tail feathers blackish 

 brown, the two outer pairs with the greater part of the inner web white ; base of the chin black ; 

 under surface of body white, excepting a broad band of chesnut across the base of the neck 

 and continued down the sides of the body. The adult female is duller than the male and lacks 

 the rufous of the throat, while the head and back are brown streaked with black. The adults 

 in winter have all the chesnut feathers of the upper parts edged with fulvous, especially on the 

 throat band ; cheeks and throat whitish, separated by a line of black feathers, [w. p. P. and T. w.] 



