216 SIBERIAN MEADOW-BUNTING. 
summer and autumn at Krasnoiarsk, in lat. 56° N. on the Yenesei, 
and accounts of its breeding in Southern Baikalia, Daiiria, and Mon- 
golia are furnished by Godlewski, Dybowski, and Prievalski. The 
nest, built in the second half of May, of dry bents with a lining of 
hair and finer materials, is placed at the foot of a bush—frequently 
a wild apricot—often ona ledge of some precipice or steep hill- 
side. The eggs, usually 4 and seldom 5 in number, are white, 
with a violet tinge, spotted and scrawled with dark brown or black: 
measurements about ‘86 by ‘62 in. ‘The song of the male is said to 
be pleasant, though interrupted, like that of most Buntings. 
The adult male has the lores black; crown and nape chest- 
nut-brown ; a whitish stripe above and behind each eye; cheeks 
rather deeper in colour than the crown ; from the gape to the cheek 
passes a dull white stripe, and below this a broad black moustache-like 
streak ; chin and throat white, merging into grey on the sides of the 
neck ; across the breast a deep chestnut band, flanks paler, belly 
whitish ; mantle chiefly chestnut, streaked on the upper back ; inner 
secondaries with blackish centres and warm buff edges; quills ash- 
brown ; middle tail-feathers chestnut, the next three pairs umber- 
brown, and the two outer pairs black at their bases with white 
terminal halves ; legs pale flesh-brown. Length 6:5, wing 3°4 in. 
The female has little more than streaks of chestnut on the crown 
and a very slight pectoral band, while her general colours are paler. 
The young male is at first similar to the female, but by December 
the warm chestnut-colour becomes marked and characteristic. 
