498 EMBERIZIDA. 
of the European Continent. In France it is only seen when 
going northward in spring, and again when returning and 
going southward in autumn. It is very abundant in Swit- 
zerland and Italy, and along the shores of the Mediterra- 
nean. It is found in Sicily, Malta, Algeria and Crete. 
Mr. H. E. Strickland says of this bird in Smyrna, that it 
haunts the vicinity of streams, and seems in that country to 
replace the Yellow Bunting, which he did not notice in 
Asia Minor. 
The adult male in summer has the beak bluish lead 
colour, the palatal knob about the same size as that of the 
Yellow Bunting; the irides hazel; the top of the head 
dark olive, streaked with black; over the eye, and on the 
cheeks, a patch of bright lemon-yellow; the ear-coverts 
dark dusky green; the back rich chestnut brown; the 
primaries and secondaries dusky black, with very narrow 
yellowish edges; the tertials, the small and the large 
wing-coverts, dusky black in the centre, broadly margined 
with chestnut ; upper tail-coverts yellowish-olive, streaked 
with dusky grey ; tail-feathers dusky black ; the outer two 
on each side with a patch of white on the inner broad 
webs; the central pair rather shorter than the others, 
and tinged with red, the rest with very narrow light- 
coloured edges. The chin and throat black; below the 
black a crescentic patch of bright lemon-yellow, the ends of 
which reach to the inferior edge of the dark ear-coverts ; 
upper part of the breast dull olive, bounded below by a 
chestnut band, which is narrowest in the middle; belly and 
under tail-coverts dull yellow; legs, toes, and claws, light 
brown. 
In winter the plumage is less brilliant generally, and the 
black feathers of the head and throat have lighter-coloured 
margins. 
