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EMBERIZA PUSILLA. 



(LITTLE BUNTING.) 



Emberiza pusilla, Pall. Reis. Russ. Reichs, iii. p. 697(1776). 

 Emberiza schoeniclus, var. minor, Nilss. Orn. Svec. i. p. 170 (1817). 

 Emberiza durazzi, Bp. Icon. Faun. Ital. Ucc. pi. 36. fig. 1 (1832-41). 

 Buscarla pusilla (Pall.), Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. ix. p. 163 (1857). 

 Cynchramus pusillus (Pall.), Degl. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 327(1867). 



Cynchrame nain, French ; Zigolo minore, Italian ; Zwerg-Ammer, German ; Dwerggors, Dutch ; 

 Bvergsparf, Swedish. 



Figurm notabiles. 



Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 382. figs. 1, 2; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 65. fig. 5 ; Gould, 

 B. of G. Brit. iii. pi. 25 ; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pi. 157; Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. ii. pi. 47. 

 fig. 1 ; Bp. I. c. 



cj ad. pileo nigro, taenia longitudinali ferruginea a fronte ad nucham ducta : capitis lateribus ferrugineis fascia 

 circa aures nigra : jugulo albo fascia alba versus nucbam ducta : supra nigro-fuscus, plumis rufescenti 

 et fulvido marginatis : remigibus nigro-fuscis, extiis pallide fusco marginatis : tectricibus alarum 

 majoribus et medianis fusco-cervino terminatis : cauda nigro-fusca, rectricibus duabus externis oblique 

 albo terminatis : gula, rufescenti- alba : corpore subtiis albo, pectore nigro guttato et hypochondriis 

 eodem colore striatis : rostro fusco-corneo, mandibula pallidiore : iride fusca : pedibus brunneis. 



$ ad. mari similis, sed sordidior. 



Juv. feminae similis, sed pileo et capitis lateribus ferrugineo-fuscis irregulariter nigro et cervino-fusco notatis : 

 dorsi plumis magis, et remigibus secundariis intimis conspicue ferrugineo marginatis : mento, gula et 

 pectore cervino-albis, hoc profuse nigro guttato ; hypochondriis nigro-striatis et cervino lavatis : corpore 

 reliquo subtiis albo. 



Adult Male (Onega, N. Russia, 14th July). Crown and sides of the head chestnut-red; a broad black 

 streak covering each side of the crown passes from the base of the bill over the eye to the nape, where 

 it broadens somewhat ; upper parts generally blackish brown, the feathers broadly bordered with light 

 brown and dull chestnut ; quills blackish brown, externally margined with light brown ; wing-coverts 

 blackish brown, the lesser ones margined like the back, the larger and median coverts tipped with light 

 buffy brown, forming two alar bars; tail blackish brown, the two outer feathers with an elongated 

 white patch on the inner web ; chin chestnut-buff, becoming white on the throat ; sides of the head 

 behind the ear-coverts marked with a black streak, below which they are dull white, almost forming a 

 collar ; underparts white ; the breast thickly spotted with black, and the flanks streaked with the same 

 colour; bill dark horn- brown, lighter on the lower mandible; iris dark brown; legs brown. Total 

 length about 5 inches, culmen 0"35, wing 2'8, tail 2 - 35, tarsus - 75. 



Adult Female (Ijma, Archangel, 4th July). Resembles the male, but is everywhere duller in colour. 



