EMBERIZIN2E. 371 



of abdomen rufous, with pale edgings, and the middle of abdomen, 

 of vent, and the lower tail-coverts white w T ith a few streaks. 



Length 6 to 6| inches ; wing 3| ; tail 3 ; tarsus §. 



This is a typical Bunting, very like E. citrinella, but the yellow 

 replaced by white. It has been only found, in India, in the N. W. 

 Himalayas. Hutton found it on the Tyne range, beyond Simla, 

 and Dr. Adams in the same locality ; and it has also been procured 

 near Peshawur. It is a native of Siberia and Northern Asia, in 

 summer, occasionally straggling into Eastern Europe. 



The next birds have the bill weaker, with the mandibles less 

 unequal, and the palatal knob smaller. They constitute Kaup's 

 genus Cia. 



713. Emfoeriza cia ? Linnaeus. 



Gould, Birds of Europe, pi 179 — Blyth, Gat 719 — Horsf., 

 Cat. 729. 



The White-showed Bunting. 



Descr, — Above rufescent brown with black central streaks, 

 brighter on the rump and tail-coverts, which are unstreaked ; crown 

 black, with a pale median line, and a broad white supercilium; 

 a black line through the eye round the pale ear-coverts, meeting 

 another, from the base of the lower mandible ; cheeks and chin 

 greyish white, passing into pale ash grey in the neck, throat, and 

 breast, with obsolete dusky spots on the front of the neck ; the 

 rest beneath ruddy brown ; wings dusky, edged rufescent ; the 

 two outer tail-feathers chiefly white. 



Bill dusky plumbeous ; legs light fleshy yellow. Length 6f 

 to 7 inches ; wing 3^ ; tail 3j ; tarsus f . 



The female has the head and lower parts more weakly and 

 dully colored than in the male ; the crown and breast are more 

 or less streaked and spotted with dusky ; and, in some, there is 

 scarcely a trace of grey on the crown. In winter the colors 

 are less pure ; with somewhat rufous edgings to the coronal 

 feathers, and a tinge of the same on the grey neck. 



This well known European Bunting has been killed near Simla, 

 :md appears not very rare in the N. W. Himalayas. It extends 



