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species, or perhaps E. fucata. Mr. Bly th states that I sent a speci- 

 men of the present bird to him as my No. 181, which I must have 

 confounded with that species. If this was the case, it makes it 

 more probable that the present was Sykes' Ortolan, and in this case 

 it is probably a rare straggler into Western India. 



In the next three the bill is still smaller and more compressed. 



717. Emberiza spodocephala, Pallas. 



E. melanops, Blyth, J. A. S. XIV. 554, and Cat. 716— E. 



chlorocephala of Nepal, J. A. S. XV. 39 — E. personata, Temm, 



P. C. 580 ? 



The Black-faced Buntixg. 



Descr. — Head, neck, and breast, dull green, faintly streaked with 

 dusky on the crown ; lores, chin, and feathers at the base of the lower 

 mandible, black ; belly and lower tail-coverts sulphur yellow ; flanks 

 greenish, with dusky streaks ; scapulars and interscapulars greenish 

 rufescent, black streaked ; wings blackish, edged rufescent ; rump 

 plain rufescent-greenish ; tail dusky, outer feathers, with the ter- 

 minal two-thirds white, also about a third of the inner web of the 

 next one. 



Bill dusky, lower mandible whitish ; legs pale. Length 6 

 inches ; wing 2§ ; tail 2§ ; bill at front ^ ; tarsus f . 



This Bunting has been found rarely in Nepal, and extending 

 through the hill ranges of Assam and Sylhet into Tipperah. It 

 appears to correspond better to the description of Pallas' spodo- 

 cephala than to personata, which has the whole under parts yellow, 

 but they are perhaps the same bird. The former is said to be an 

 inhabitant of Northern Asia, the latter of Japan, and Swinhoe says 

 that E. persojiata is the commonest winter Bunting in China. 



718. Emberiza Btewarti, Blyth. 



J. A. S. XXIII. 215 — E. caniceps, Gould, Birds of Asia, 

 pt. VI., pi 16-Hoksf., Cat. 736. 



The White-capped Bunting. 

 Descr. — Male, crown greyish-white ; lores, a broad line passing 

 over the eye to the nape, and the throat, black ; cheeks and 

 ear-coverts white ; back, scapularies, rump, and upper tail-coverts, 



