EMfiERIZA 35 7 



$ ad. (Finland). Head greenish grey ; lores, throat, and a ring round 

 the eye lemon-yellow ; upper parts, wing-coverts, and secondaries fulvous 

 brown, the back darker striped ; the larger wing-coverts edged with fulvous 

 white ; rump yellowish brown ; remiges and rectrices dark brown, with dull 

 fulvous margins, the outer tail-feathers with large white apical patches ; 

 fore-breast yellowish green ; rest of under parts tawny chestnut ; bill dull 

 flesh red, paler below ; legs pale fleshy red ; iris brown. Culmen 0'5, 

 wing 3*6, tail 2'9, tarsus 0'75 inch. The female, especially when very old, 

 differs but little from the male, but is somewhat duller and paler 

 in colour. Young birds are dull pale rufous, closely streaked above and 

 below with dark brown. 



Hob. Europe generally, breeding as far north as south 

 Varanger, and as far south as Algeria; Asia as far east as 

 Afghanistan, Turkestan, and Gilgit ; wintering in Africa as far 

 south as Abyssinia. To England it is only a rare straggler, has 

 occurred twice in Scotland and once ? in Ireland. 



Frequents the outskirts of woods, bush-covered meadows, and 

 fields, gardens when they are near the woods, fences and bushes 

 on the roadsides and I often saw it sitting on barns and out- 

 buildings, and in its general habits it reminded me much of 

 E. citrinella. It feeds on insects and seeds, the young birds 

 being fed on the former. Its song which is uttered from a bush, 

 fence, stone, or the roof of a barn is tink, fink, tink, tjorr the 

 last note prolonged and harsh. Nidification begins in May and 

 the nest, which is constructed of grass-bents and rootlets some- 

 times lined with a few hairs, is placed on the ground, amongst 

 grass or stones, or under bushes or large plants. The eggs 

 4 or 5 in number are pale ashy grey, sometimes with a russet 

 tinge with pale purplish grey shell-markings and blackish 

 brown surface-spots or blotches, with only occasionally a few 

 hieroglyphic scratchy lines, and average about 077 by 0'61. In 

 confinement it soon becomes very fat and in southern Europe 

 numbers are netted and fattened for the table. 



516. GREY-NECKED BUNTING. 

 EMBERIZA HUTTONI. 



Emberizahuttoni, Blyth, J. A. Soc. Beng. xviii. p. 811 (1849) ; Dresser, 

 ix. p. 215, p. 681 ; "'E. buchanani, Blyth," Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 xii. p. 533 ; Gates, F.' Brit. Ind. Birds, ii. p, 258 ; E. cerrutii, De 

 Filippi Arch, per la Zool. ii. fasc. 2, p. 383 (1863) ; Gould, B. of As. 

 v. pi. 11. 



Jamjohara, Hind. 



