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throughout the region, breeding during the hot season, in holes 

 in trees, &c. The eggs, three or four in number, are greenish- white 

 in color, but so much spotted, smudged, streaked, and clouded 

 with dark sepia-brown as to leave little of the ground-color 

 visible. They measure 074 by 0'55. 



SUB -FAMILY, Emberizinse. 



Bill with the upper mandible typically smaller and more com- 

 pressed than the lower, which is broader, equal in a few ; a 

 palatal protuberance in many ; commissure usually sinuate ; tail 

 moderate, even or emarginate. 



GENUS, Emberiza. 



Bill of varied strength and the mandibles more or less unequal, 

 usually somewhat lengthened ; wings moderate or rather long, 

 with the first quill a little shorter than the second and third, 

 which are longest ; tail of moderate length ; the outermost 

 feathers more or less marked with white. 



Emberiza buchanani, Ely. 



716. E. huttoni, Blyth. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 373 ; 



Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 497; Deccan, 



Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 416 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology 

 ' of Sind, p. 185. 



THE GREY-NECKED BUNTING. 



Length, 575 to 6 ; wing, 3'5 ; tail, 3 ; tarsus, 75. 



Bill reddish ; irides brown ; feet fleshy-brown. 



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

 the lower corner of the under mandible on each side a short 

 streak of buffy, between which and the chin, 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 faintly striated ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts greyish-brown or ferruginous, paler on the abdomen 

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

 verts ferruginous ; median and greater-coverts brown, edged 

 with ferruginous ; 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 black- 

 ish-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. 



The Grey-necked Bunting is a not uncommon winter visitant 

 to all parts of the district ; it is much addicted to frequenting 

 stony hills. 



