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whitish ; bill yellow horn, with dusky tip; legs fleshy. Length, 7 
inches ; bill, 14; tail, less 3; wing, 32; tarse, 1,4,; central toe and 
nail, 13; hind, 19. 
3. Acc. immaculatus, mihi.—Least of the three; not unlike them 
in colours, but the plumage more uniform and freer from spots and 
blotches; head and neck dusky olive, passing gradually into em- 
browned ochreous red on the body above and below, as well as on 
the whole visible part of the closed wing ; shoulders pale slaty blue 
and unspotted ; alars and caudals dusky brown, and nearly void of 
brighter margins or tips; bill blackish; legs fleshy grey; iris straw- 
colour. Length, only 6 inches; bill, 5 ; tail, 14 ; wing, 27; tarse, 7; 
central toe and nail, 3; hind, 5%. 
4. Acc. strophiatus, mihi.—Above and laterally sordid rusty, with 
black central blotches ; below white, with similar marks, but smaller 
and paler; wings and tail black-brown; the alars and their coverts 
margined with embrowned rusty; ears and lores margined towards 
the body all round with bright rusty, and a large gorget of the same 
on the top of the breast ; from nares to brow a white line, joining the 
red one above spoken of; bill dusky horn; legs fleshy brown ; iris 
brown; wings shorter and tail longer than in any of the others. 
Length, 6 inches; bill, plus }; tail, 23; wing, 24; tarse, 14; central 
toe and nail, 3; hind, ,9,. Weight less 1] oz. Breeds on the ground, 
making a saucer-shaped nest of moss, well-compacted. These birds 
are much on the ground and have an ambulatory structure of legs 
and feet : I should place them among the Finches, near to the next- 
named, or Buntings, which also are exclusively monticolous I believe, 
and are found in the central and northern regions. They are con- 
stantly flushed from the ground in corn-fields and are comparatively 
familiar birds to the Accentors, which avoid houses and cultivation. 
Genus Hmberiza. 
We have four species, three of which are the erythroptera, chlo- 
rocephala, and aureola of authors, and the fourth is I think new, as 
follows :—Emberiza oinops, mihi. 
New subgenus, Ocyris, mihi, 
Bill very acute and perfectly conic, without any curve along the 
culmen or gonys; mouth simply angulated, without palatal knob ; 
wings with 2-3 longest and equal. 
Type, EH. oinops, mihi.—Above rusty red, picked out with large 
blackish central dashes ; below white, with narrower dark marks, and 
none on the lower belly and vent ; wings and tail black-brown ; wing 
with large ruddy margins; alars internally and laterally albescent ; 
head and face rusty red, with two longitudinal black marks on the 
crown and another circling round the ear from the eye nearly to gape ; 
bill dusky horn; legs embrowned fleshy; iris brown. Length, 52 
inches ; bill, 4; tail, 22; wing, 23; tarse, ?; central toe and nail, *, 
Weight § to #0z, Sexes alike. Stomach gizzard-like; contents 
seeds and gravel. 
