130 <A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORNITHOLOGY OF GILGIT. 
in showing a faint indication of the chestnut breast-band of the 
male bird. 
157.—Emberiza scheeniclus, Lin. (720 ¢er.) 
A winter visitor in small numbers from December to March. 
A male shot in Gilgit on the 15th December measured :— 
Length, 6°3 inches; wing, 3°2; tail, 3; tarsus, 0°75; bill to gape, 
0:42. Gilgit examples of this species agree completely with 
specimens from Eastern Turkestan, Kandahar, and Asia 
Minor. As to “ E. scheniclus, var. B. Pallas,’ mentioned 
S. F., IX., 346, this has been shown by Mr. Seebohm (dis, 
1879, p. 39) to be L. passerina, Pallas, a species quite distinct 
from EE. scheniclus, Lin. 
158.—Euspiza luteola, Sparrm. (722.) 
Merely a bird of passage with us; obtained from the third 
week in August to about the middle of September, when it 
was doubtless on its way south. In The Ibis, 1880, p. 66, 
Capt. Wardlaw-Ramsay gives an interesting account of the 
nidification of this species. He had not then met with any 
account of its breeding-habits, having overlooked my note on 
the subject in Stray Featuers, 1876, p. 167. I found the 
bird breeding abundantly about Yarkand in 1875. 
Kuspiza, Sp.* 
A single immature bird of this genus, a male, shot in Gilgit 
on the 28th August, differs so much from examples of 
LE. luteola of the same sex and age, that it probably represents 
a distinct species. The following is a description :--Head, 
hind neck, and back with all the feathers broadly streaked 
down the centre with brownish black, and their margins buff, 
suffused with greenish yellow; rump and upper tail-coverts 
greenish yellow, with narrow dark-brown shaft-streaks ; rec- 
trices dark brown, the outermost pair paler, and all with pale 
yellowish margins to the outer webs and tips ; wing-coverts, 
primaries, and secondaries brown, all margined on the outer 
webs and tips with sullied white; lores and chin buff; cheeks 
and ear-coverts sandy brown, faintly washed with yellow; 
whole lower surface dull yellow; the throat, breast, and 
flanks boldly striped down the centres of the feathers with 
dark-brown; axillaries pale yellow, with greyish-white bases ; 
under wing-coverts greyish white, spotted with brown near 
the edge of the wing. Longest secondaries 0°8 shorter than 
longest primary, intermediate in length between the eighth 
* This possibly belongs to the spodocephala, personata, sulphurata group. 
Though too large for this, the plumage seems to be very close to that of immature 
spodocephala,—ED., 8. 
