372 EMBERIZAUROCYNCIIRAMUS 



upper tail-coverts white, the latter striped with pale ash. Culmen 0'38, 

 wing 2' 88, tail 2'45, tarsus 0'7 inch. The female differs from that of 

 E. schceniclus in being paler, more sandy buff in tinge, the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts are white and it is smaller. 



Hob. E. Siberia, Turkestan on passage, wintering in 

 Manchuria, Mongolia, and N. China. It also breeds in Corea. 



In habits it does not differ from E. schceniclus, and its eggs 

 resemble those of that species, but are smaller. 



535. SUBSP. EMBERIZA PYRRHULOIDES. 



Eniberiza pyrrhuloides, Pall. Zoogr. Boss. As. ii. p. 49 (1811); Dresser, 

 iv. p. 249, pi. 222, figs. 2, 3 ; (Sharpe) Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 475. 



Kamichowaya ovsyanka, Russ. ; Karabash kuchkaeh, Turki. 



ad. (Astrachan). Differs from E. schoeniclus in being considerably 

 larger, and paler, the dorsal feathers and middle rectrices with broad 

 white margins, and the bill is much larger and stouter. Culmen 0'5, 

 height of bill at base 0'32, wing 3'6, tail 3'32, tarsus O85 inch. In 

 winter the colours on the head, neck, and upper parts are obscured by 

 creamy ochreous margins to the feathers, and the under parts are slightly 

 tinged with yellowish. The female resembles that of E. schcemclus, but 

 is larger, paler, and has a much stouter bill. 



Hob. Astrachan, Lake Aral, the mouths of the Volga and 

 Ural rivers east to Yarkand. 



In habits it does not appear to differ from E. schceniclus, 

 and its nest and eggs resemble those of that species, but are 

 larger. 



UROCYNCHRAMUS, Prjev., 1876. 



536. ROSE BUNTING. 

 UROCYNCHRAMUS PYLZOWI. 



Urocynchramus pylzowi, Prjevalski, Mongol i Strana Tangut, ii. p. 99, 

 Tab. xv. (1876) ; Gould, B. of As. v. pi. 32 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. xii. p. 472. 



< ad. (Mongolia). Crown and upper parts sandy brown striped with 

 black ; quills blackish brown margined with warm buff, the inner 

 secondaries with fulvous brown ; wing-coverts fulvous brown with broad 

 reddish margins, the larger with sandy buff tips forming an alar band ; 

 central rectrices blackish brown, margined with dull white, the three or 

 four outer ones rose-crimson tipped with white ; lores, supercilium, cheeks, 



