EMBERIZA 369 



wing-coverts tipped with chestnut-brown and not with white, and the 

 under parts are more rufous. Culmen 0*5, wing 3'31, tail 3'1, tarsus 0'75 

 inch. 



Hob. Kashmir ; the Himalayas from the Hazara country and 

 Gilgit to Kumaun; Baluchistan; wintering on the plains of 

 India. 



This is merely an eastern form of E. da, not differing from it 

 in general habits. It breeds throughout the Himalayas west 

 of the Ganges at from 4,000 to 9,000 feet elevation from April 

 to August, the majority of eggs being deposited in May and 

 June. The nest is placed on the ground, under or between 

 stones, or at the base of a tuft of grass, or a bush, and is 

 constructed of grass-stems lined with fine bents and hair. The 

 eggs are greenish white scrawled with delicate blackish brown 

 lines, usually collected round the larger end, and average about 

 0-83 by 0-63. 



531. GODLEVSKI'S MEADOW BUNTING. 

 EMBERIZA GODLEWSKII. 



Emberiza godlewsJcii, Tacz. J. f. 0. 1874, p. 330 j Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. xii. p. 542 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 589 ; David and Oust. Ois. 

 Chine, p. 546. 



<$ ad. (S.E. Siberia). Differs from E. cia in having the crown blue- 

 grey with a central stripe and the supercilium dark chestnut, and no 

 black on the head but on the lores and the forepart of a stripe below the 

 cheek, which then becomes chestnut ; the upper parts are rather more 

 rufous, and the blue-grey extends somewhat further on the breast ; beak 

 brown, paler below ; legs flesh-coloured ; iris dark brown. Culmen 

 0'48, wing 3'65, tail 3-58, tarsus 0'72 inch. The female differs merely in 

 being a trifle duller in colour and in having the crown finely striped with 

 reddish brown. 



Hob. Eastern Siberia, Manchuria, Eastern Turkestan, 

 Mongolia, and China, ranging west to Yarkand and N. 

 Kashmir. 



Frequents the forests and mountains where brushwood is 

 scattered about, and feeds on seeds of various kinds. It is said 

 to be wary and difficult of approach. So far as I gather it has 

 only been hitherto met with in the winter and its breeding 

 haunts are unknown. 



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