264 PETNGILLTD.-r. 



Coloration. Male. After the autumn moult the whole upper 

 plumage, lesser and median wing-coverts, sides of the head and 

 neck, chin, throat, and fore neck are deep chestnut, each feather 

 fringed with ashy yellow ; greater coverts and tertiaries dark 

 brown, margined with chestnut; primaries, secondaries, and tail- 

 feathers dark brown, narrowly margined with ochraceous ; lower 

 plumage from the fore neck downwards yellow, the sides of the 

 body and the under tail-coverts streaked with dusky green. 



In the spring the ashy-yellow margins get worn away on all the 

 chestnut parts of the plumage, and these become deep chestnut. 



Female. Forehead, crown, nape, hind neck, back, and lesser wing- 

 coverts ashy brown streaked with black ; rump chestnut, edged 

 with ashy ; upper tail-coverts rufous-brown, edged with ashy ; 

 median and greater wing-coverts and tertiaries dark brown, broadly 

 margined with fulvous or rufous ; quills and tail brown, edged 

 with ashy or fulvous ; lores, an indistinct supercilium, cheeks, chin, 

 and throat fulvous ; a brown moustachial streak ; remaining lower 

 plumage oil-yellow, tinged with brown on the breast, which is 

 also obsoletely streaked; sides of the body boldly streaked with 

 dusky green. 



The young bird is brown above and pale yellowish below, every- 

 where streaked with dark brown. 



Iris bright brown ; bill above dark horny, below pale ; legs pale 

 yellowish brown (Wardlaw Ramsay), 



Length about 6; tail 2*5; wing 2- 9 ; tarsus *7 ; bill from 

 gape -5. 



Distribution. The Eastern portion of the Empire, This species 

 has been recorded from Sikhim, the Bhutan Dears, Manipur, 

 Karennee, and various localities in Pegu and Northern and Central 

 Tenasserim. It visits India only in the winter, at which season 

 it is also found in China and Siam. It summers in North China 

 and Eastern Siberia. 



802. Emberiza striolata. The Striolated Bunting. 



Fringillaria striolata, lAcht. Verz. Doubl. p. 24 (1823) ; Hume, N. $ 



E. p. 463; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii, p. 601. 

 .Emberiza striolata (Lichf.), Hume, Ibis, 1870, p, 309; id. S. F. vii, 



p. 410 ; id. Cat. no. 7iO his; Oatcs in Hume's A 7 . & E. 2nd ed. ii, 



p. 170. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, and nape greyish white, 

 thickly streaked with black; upper plumage, scapulars, and lesser 

 coverts pale rufous with dark streaks ; wings and tail dark brown, 

 each feather margined with rufous ; lores and a distinct supercilium 

 white; a black eye-band followed below^ by a broad whitish band from 

 the gape to the middle of the ear-coverts and by another black band 

 meeting the eye-band behind the ear-coverts ; a white moustachial 

 streak ; chin, throat, and upper breast ashy, with black streaks to 

 the feathers ; remainder of lower plumage, under wing-coverts, 

 and a portion of the inner webs of the quills rufous. 



