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but can always be distinguished from that species by its note. 
In the males the wings measured 3°6 to 3°8 inches ; in the 
females 3°4 to 3:5. One male bird had the mandibles crossed 
as in Lowia, the maxilla to the right. 
153.—Emberiza stracheyi, Moore. (714.) 
This can hardly be regarded as a very good species. Gilgit 
specimens are in many respects intermediate in colouration 
between Hmberiza cia and LE. stracheyt from Simla. 
A nestling, obtained on the 22nd July at an elevation of 
9,000 feet, had the head, mantle, and back rufous brown, all 
the feathers with broad central black streaks ; rump and upper 
tail-coverts rufous, with narrow central black streaks; two 
well-marked rufous-buff wing bands formed by the tips of the 
coverts; inner secondaries broadly edged on outer web with 
rufous ; rest of wings and the tail as in the adult; supercilium 
pale fulvous ; lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts dusky, the feathers 
with pale-buff margins; chin greyish white; rest of under 
surface buff ; the throat, breast, and flanks boldly streaked with 
blackish; lower tail-coverts unstreaked rufous buff. 
154.—Emberiza hortulana, Lin. (715.) 
This species is rare in Gilgit, and only occurs on passage. 
I obtained a male on 9th May which measured :—Wing, 3°5 
inches ; tail, 2°75 ; tarsus, 0°85; culmen, 0°5. This specimen 
agrees completely with examples of J. hortulana from 
Norway, with which I have compared it. I have examined the 
type of Emberiza shah, Bonap., from Persia, in the Paris 
Museum; it is certainly nothing but an example of 
EE. hortulana. 
155.—Emberiza huttoni,* Blyth. (716.) 
Fairly common on passage throughout the month of Sep- 
tember ; not obtained in spring. Gilgit specimens are identical 
with examples from Kandahar, whence the specimens origiually 
described by Blyth were collected. 
156.—Emberiza stewarti, Blyth. (718.) 
Common in the lower parts of the Gilgit valley, from Gakuch 
to the Indus; it arrives during the first week in April, and 
leaves for the south again about the middle of September. 
Eight males have the wings 3 to 3:25 inches, and four females 
2°8 to 2°87. A young male shot in the first week in September 
only differs from the adult female in having rufous margins 
to the outer webs and tips of the latter secondaries, and 
* Must stand as ZH, buchanani, Bly.—Ep.,S. F. 
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