YELLOW-BROWED BUNTING. 169 



GRANIVOR^E. 



Family FRINGILLID^. f Bonaparte.) 



Genus Emberiza. (Linnceus.) 



YELLOW-BROWED BUNTING. 



Emberiza chrysophrys. 



Emberiza chrysophrys, Pallas; Zoog. Ross. Asiat., pi. 84, fig. 2; 



Iter, No. 65. 

 " " Selys; Faune Beige., pi. 4, fig. 1. 



" " Degland; Tableau des Ois. du Nord de la 



France, et Cat. des Ois. observes en Europe ; 

 (in the Memoirs of the Society of Sciences, 

 Arts, and Agriculture of Lille, 1831 — 1845.) 

 Orn. Eur., p. 249. 

 " " Schlegel; Revue. 



" " Bonaparte; Consp. Avium Europearum. 



Bruant a sourcils jaunes, Of the French. 

 Gelbbrauiger Ammer, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — A yellow superciliary band stretching beyond the 

 auditory orifices; beak straight. First primary as long as the fourth. Tail 

 very much notched; the most lateral feather nearly white, spotted with 

 brown only on the upper part of the internal web, and the under part of 

 the external web; the following quill edged with white outside. Length 

 about six inches. 



This bird is an inhabitant of the north-east of Asia, and is occa- 

 sionally found in those parts of Northern Europe contiguous thereto. 

 Its occurrence in Europe, is, however, accidental. One specimen was 

 shot in the neighbourhood of Lille, in France, and is preserved in 

 the museum of that town, and M. A. de la Fontaine, in his "Faune 

 du Pays de Luxemberg," says: — "M. Monhimont tells me that in 

 the spring of 18G3 he observed two of these Buntings, of which he 



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