172 YELLOW-BROWED BUNTING. 



of the primaries and secondaries, are broader. Below the white of the 

 breast and chin is sprinkled with yellowish. The longitudinal spots 

 are black, more or less broad. Those on the throat are divided and 

 forked: on the yellowish brown flank, however, arrow-shaped spots 

 appear. The white of the second tail feather is at the end broader 

 on the inner edge than in the old birds, and the third feather has 

 at the end on the inner side near the shaft a white wedge-formed 

 spot; on the white under tail coverts are greyish black spots. On 

 the recently shot bird the upper beak is of a deep horn grey, the 

 base to near the nostrils reddish and lighter; the lower beak at the 

 base a dull white, almost grey. Feet and claws dull flesh-colour, the 

 latter near the end horn-grey. Iris brownish. 



Total length of old male one hundred and thirty-eight millemetres, 

 old female one hundred and thirty-eight millemetres, young male one 

 hundred and twenty-six millemetres; wing seventy-eight, seventy-three, 

 and seventy-five millemetres respectively; tail, male and female sixty- 

 two, young fifty-six millemetres; beak on ridge ten, ten, and nine 

 millemetres; tarsus fourteen, fourteen, fourteen millemetres; middle toe 

 and claw five, five, and four millemetres. 



"On the 13th. (25th.) August, 1856, I saw this Bunting with small 

 flocks in the evening with E. pusilla, in the gardens at KulussutajefTk, 

 on the Tarei-Nor. Its trembling call-note was frequently heard. It 

 was soft and piping, as in the other Buntings. On the 17th. of 

 September, 1859, this species lived not far from the fortress of 

 Tunkinsk, in the neighbourhood called Saktui. I then saw four 

 specimens in the willow bushes." 



Of the propagation and habit of this species I am sorry that I 

 cannot refer to any authentic details. 



It has been figured by Pallas; by De Selys, in the Faune Beige, 

 (1842,) vol. i., pi. 4, fig. 1; and by Dresser, Birds of Europe, male and 

 female. 



