352 EMJIERIZA 



Hab. Japan, wintering in southern China. 



In general habits it is said to resemble E. personata. It 

 breeds in Japan and is said to be the commonest Bunting on 

 Fuji-yama, where it places its nest in the fork of a small bush 

 about two feet from the ground, constructing it of grass, lined 

 with horsehair or the seed-stalks of moss. The eggs usually 4 

 in number are deposited from the end of May to the early part 

 of July, and closely resemble a common variety of those of the 

 Garden- Warbler with dark spots. 



510. CINEREOUS BUNTING. 

 EMBERIZA CINEREA. 



Emberiza cinerea, Strickland, P.Z.S. 18'32, p. 99 j Gould, B. of Asia, 

 v. pi. 8 -, Dresser, iv. p. 159, pi. 207 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. 

 p. 529. 



<$ ad. (Asia Minor). Crown, nape, and sides of head ashy grey, tinged 

 with yellow ; upper parts brownish ash, the back darkly striped ; wings 

 and tail blackish brown, the primaries margined with dull white, the 

 secondaries and wing-coverts more broadly with warm buff, outer rectrices 

 with the inner web terminally white, chin and throat clear yellow ; 

 lower throat and upper breast ash-grey, tinged with yellow ; rest of under 

 parts white, the flanks washed with grey ; bill dull horn-blue, legs fleshy 

 brown ; iris dark brown. Culmen 0'5, wing 3'6, tail 3'1, tarsus 0'85 inch. 

 The female is duller in colour, the head browner, striped with dark brown ; 

 chin and throat yellow, with short dark stripes ; rest of under parts buffy 

 white, the breast and flanks washed with ashy brown. The young bird is 

 darker, and more distinctly striped, the under parts are pale brownish ash, 

 striped and spotted with brown, the chin and throat washed with pale 

 sulphur, the abdomen and under tail-coverts dull white, and has the 

 inner secondaries broadly margined with buffy rufous. 



Hob. Asia Minor, ranging east to Persia. 



Affects rocky, mountainous districts where vegetation is 

 scanty, and ranges high up into the conifer region; it is 

 extremely shy and wary, and in its general habits is said to 

 resemble JE. ccesia. Its call-note is a short kup, and its song 

 a succession of short strophes resembling the syllables dir, dir, 

 dir, dli-di, variously modulated. 



Although it appears to breed in some numbers near Smyrna, 

 but one nest with eggs has, so far as I can ascertain, been 

 as yet obtained, and is now in the Museum at Athens, but I 

 possess one egg out of this clutch, which was obtained by 

 Dr. Kriiper near Smyrna on the 10th May 1889. It is white 



