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hair and fine roots. The eggs 5 in number are deposited late 

 in May and are white with pale violet shell-markings and 

 brownish black small surface-spots, in size measuring about 

 O75 by 0'59. They are not unlike the eggs of E. leucocephala, 

 and lack the characteristic lines found on the eggs of most 

 Buntings. 



514. YELLOW-BROWED BUXTIXG. 

 EMBERIZA CHRYSOPHRYS. 



Embwiza cltrysophrys, Pall. Reis. Russ. Reichs, iii. Anliang, p. 698 

 (1776) ; Raclde, Reis. S. Ost Sib. Vog. taf. iv. figs, la, b, c ; Dresser, 

 iv. p. 193, pi. 212 ; David and Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 325 ; Sharpe,. 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 498 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 570. 



Ta-liuang-mfy, Chinese. 



ad. (Siberia). Crown, nape, and sides of the head black ; a narrow 

 central line on the crown white ; supercilium yellow ; upper parts warm 

 brown, streaked chiefly on the mantle with blackish ; remiges and rec- 

 trices dark brown, with paler margins, the two outer rectrices obliquely 

 marked with white ; under parts white, the sides of throat, breast, and 

 flanks striped with blackish brown ; bill horn-grey, paler at the base and 

 below ; legs pale flesh ;. iris brown. Culmen 0*45, wing 3'1, tail 2 '5, 

 tarsus 0*75 inch. The female is duller in colour, more rufous on the upper 

 parts, and more spotted on the under parts. 



Hal. E. Siberia, wintering in China ; has occurred twice in 

 Belgium. 



Frequents bush-covered localities, chiefly willow-thickets and 

 has been met with in company with E. pusilla. Its call-note 

 is softer and shriller than that of the other Buntings. Nothing 

 is as yet known respecting its nidification. 



515. ORTOLAN. 

 EMBERIZA HORTULANA. 



Einberiza hortulanu, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 309 (1766) ; Naum. iv. p. 258, 

 Taf. 103, figs. 1, 2, 3 ; Hewitson, i. p. 191, pi. xlviii. fig. 1 ; Gould, 

 B. of E. iii. pi. 176 ; Newton, ii. p. 57 ; Dresser, iv. p. 185, pis. 211, 

 215, fig. 1 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 530 ; Gates, F. Brit. 

 Ind. Birds, ii. p. 259 ; Saunders, p. 213 ; Lilford, iv. p. 30, pi. 16. 



Bruant-ortoloM, French ; Hortelano, Ave-tonta, Span. - Y 

 Ortolano, Ital. ; Gartenammer, German ; Ortolan, Dutch ; 

 'Hortulan, Dan. and Norw. ; Ortolansparf, Swed.',**Peltosirkku f 

 Finn. : Sadovaya-ovsyanka , Russ. 



