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perching on the bushes and shrubs, both on the uncultivated hills and 

 about gardens. Probably when Count Miihle saw them they had 

 not paired; when I fell in with them they were building. E. ccesia 

 is, I should say, the commonest Bunting in Palestine." 



Professor Blasius, of Brunswick, in a private letter to me places E. 

 ccesia as a variety of E. 'hortulanus, but I think it entitled to specific 

 rank, although closely allied. 



The adult male in breeding plumage has the top of the head and a 

 broad collar round the neck bluish grey; all the upper parts from the 

 nape varied with dark brown and russet; throat, chest, and abdomen 

 russet; primaries and tail feathers dark brown, bordered with russet; 

 two outer tail feathers with a large white patch on the inner web of 

 their distal extremities; beak, tarsi and feet reddish brown. 



The female has, according to Degland, all the upper parts varied 

 with brown and russet, having a strong resemblance to the female 

 Ortolan in breeding attire; the inferior parts and under tail coverts 

 russet, with brown strise on the crop and chest. 



Temminck says that the male and female in autumn have the 

 colours less pure, with small striae on the grey of head and neck; the 

 feathers of the crop bordered with brown, and the russet red of the 

 throat less pure. 



My figure and description are taken from a male specimen kindly 

 sent me by Mr. Tristram, marked "Emmaus, Judeea, March 25th., 

 1858." The egg is from my own collection, it was taken by Dr. 

 Kriiper in Greece, and is marked " Ccesia, 8, 4, 63 ." I have three 

 others taken by the same distinguished naturalist. I have also two 

 specimens taken in Bulgaria by Mr. Farman. 



It has been figured by Roux, as a variety of the Meadow Bunting, 

 in his Ornith. Prov. Atlas, pi. 112, (male;) by Cretzschmaer, in RuppeH's 

 Atlas, pi. 10, fig. 6, (male in breeding plumage;) by Gould, B. of E., 

 181, and by Mr. Dresser, B. of E. 



The bird which followed next in the first edition, the Striolated 

 Bunting, f Ember iza striolata,) has no claim to be admitted into the 

 European lists, as I suggested when I admitted it provisionally on 

 Temminck's authority. The only known instance of its capture in 

 Europe is a solitary one related by Mr. Robson near Constantinople. 

 Herr von Heuglin quite concurs in the step I have taken of excluding 

 this bird from the geographical (the only true) limits of European 

 animal life. 



