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3. Yenesei llivcr, Lat. (iG-*N., 27th Seebohm Coll. 



June (//. S.). 

 3. Yenesei River, Lat. 67 N., 30th Seebohm Coll. 



June (H. S.). 

 1. Amur River (Nehrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Emberiza rustica, Pall. 



Hypocentor rusticus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 12. fig. 13 ; tab. 76. 



fig. 10(1855-63). 

 Einberi/a rustica, Bree, Birds Eur. 2nd ed. iii. p. 157, pi. (1875) ; 



Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 229 (1877) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. 



p. 140, pi. 15 (1884) ; Sharpe, Cut. Birds B. M. xii. p. 490 (1888) ; 



Tacz. Faune Orn. Siber. Orient, p. 572 (1891) ; Seebohm, Eggs of 



Brit. Birds, p. 249, pi. 68. fig. 5 (1896) ;' Newton, P. Z. S. 1897, 



p. 893, pi. li. rigs. 8 & 9 ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 112 (1899) ; 



Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 362 (1902) ; Hartert, Vog. Pal. 



Faun, pt, ii. p. 188 (1904) ; Jourd. Eggs Europ. Birds, p. Ill, pi. 14. 



rig. 7 (1906) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 277 (1909). 

 Euspiza rustica, Reij, Eier Vog. Mitteleurop. p. 297, pi. 38. fig. 7 (1900). 



Eggs of the Rustic Bunting are of a blunt oval shape and 

 moderately glossy. Two eggs have the ground-colour pale greyish- 

 green, mottled all over with two shades of greenish-brown and a 

 black hair-line across the larger end. Under these markings, which 

 are very thickly disposed over the shell, may be detected traces of 

 underlying greyish spots. Eight eggs have the ground-colour pale 

 blue or greenish-blue, spotted and blotched, especially towards the 

 larger end, with olive-brown and lavender-grey, the latter colour 

 forming a more or less distinct zone round the broad end. They 

 measure from -78 to -81 in length, and from '55 to -61 in breadth.* 



2. Archangel, N. Russia, 16th June. Seebohm Coll. 



4. Archangel, 3rd June. Crowley Bequest. 



4. Pinega, Archangel, 20th June. W. Radclifte Saunders, Esq. 



Emberiza fucata, Pall. 



(Plate XI. figs. 1-4.) 



Emberiza fucata, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 493 (1888) ; Tacz. 

 Faune Orn. Siber. Orient, p. 577 (1891) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 

 p. 112 (1899) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 360 (1902) ; La 

 Touche,Ibis, 1906, p. 631 ; Sharpe, Hand-l v. p. 277 (1909). 



Emberiza fucata fucata, Hfotert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 187 (1904). 



Eggs of the Grey-hcad|ed Bunting vary from a broad oval to a 



* Baedeker's figures of the efcgs of this Bunting are good, but Bree's repro- 

 duction of one of them is altogether wrong and unrecognizable. Mr. Dresser's 

 description of the eggs in the ]Birds of Europe ' applies to those of some other 

 species of Bunting, and he y-as evidently misled by his correspondent. He 

 subsequently obtained genuini eggs. (Cf. Newton, I. c.) 



