380 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



The next species differs from the type of the preceding two by 

 having the outer tail-feathers marked conspicuously with white, and 

 perhaps might be ranked with the true Buntings ; but, in its mode 

 of coloration, and its more extensive migrations, as well as in the 

 strong beak, it resembles the last two, which it thus appears to 

 represent in Eastern India. Horsfield and Bonaparte both class 

 it in Euspiza ; Cabanis separates it as Hypucentor. 



723. Euspiza aureola, Pallas. 



Emberiza, apud Pallas, Zoog. Ross. As. pi. 50 — Gould, 

 Birds of Europe, pi. 174 — Blyth, Cat. 711 — E. flavogularis, 

 McLelland, P. Z. S. 1839— Blyth, Cat. 712, the female— 

 Passerina collaris, Vieillot. 



The Brown-headed Bunting. 



Descr. — In winter plumage, above dark mar onne -brown, blackish 

 on the head and interscapulars ; the feathers edged lighter on 

 the back, rump, wings, and tail ; ear-coverts mixed yellow and 

 grey ; eyebrow, chin, throat, breast, and belly yellow ; primaries, 

 and tail, dark brown ; a large white spot on the lesser wing-coverts, 

 and a white edging to the lower wing-coverts ; the two outer tail- 

 feathers, with a wide oblique patch of white, occupying the greater 

 part of feathers ; the next with a narrow patch on the inner web 

 close to the shaft. In summer there is a dark brown collar round 

 the throat and upper part of the breast, and the flanks are brownish ; 

 the forehead, face, ear-coverts and chin also become black. 



The female is light rufescent-brown above, the eye-brows and 

 plumage beneath fulvous yellow, paling posteriorly. 



Length about 6 inches ; wing 3^ ; tail 2^-. 



This Bunting, an inhabitant of Siberia and Central Asia, in 

 winter straggles sparingly into Nepal and the S. E.. Himalayas, 

 but is more abundant in Assam, Tippera, and Burmah. It avoids 

 Bengal and the plains of India. It is occasionally found in 

 Europe. Swinhoe found it in China in flocks, in autumn, feeding 

 on the ripening corn. 



Emb. rutila, Pallas, of Northern. Asia, was lately found by Mr. 

 Blanford in Upper Burmah ; and these two appear to be the only 

 Buntings found in Burmah. 



