EMBERIZA. 185 



Sub -Family, EMBERIZIN^. 



Bill flattened on the sides, smaller and more compressed than in 

 Passer, the edges indented or waved — a palatal knob on upper mandible; 

 wings pointed ; tarsi moderate, scutate ; hind toe longer than inner ; 

 tail moderate, even or emarginate. 



Gen. Emberiza. 

 Bill small ; second to 4th quills longest ; tail rather forked ; 

 outermost feather white or whitish. 



Emberiza huttoni, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xviii. 1849, p. 811 ; BIJ. 

 East. Pers. ii. 258; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 373; Hume, Str. P. iii. 497; 

 vii. 150; Murray, Hdhh., ZooL, Sfc, Slnd, p. 179. Emberiza cerrutti, 

 De F. Arch. p. 7; Zool. Genova, ii. p. 383 ; Viag. in Pers. pp. 113, 349. 

 Glycispiza huttoui, Gould, Birds of Asia, pt. xxi. — The Gebt-necked 

 Bunting. 



Head, neck, nape, and sides of the neck grey ; from the lower corner 

 of the under mandible on each side a short streak of buffy, between which 

 and the chin, which is also buff, is a streak of greyish, meeting the grey 

 of the sides of the neck ; orbital feathers whitish ; back grey, with a 

 slight rafescent tinge, the feathers faintly striated ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts greyish brown, unstriated ; breast and rest of lower surface 

 reddish brown or ferruginous, paler on the abdomen and vent, and 

 nearly buff on the under tail-coverts; lesser coverts ferruginous; 

 ■ median and greater coverts brown, edged with ferruginous ; primaries 

 dull brown, margined narrowly on their outer, and broadly on their 

 inner web with pale white or rufescent white ; secondaries the same, 

 but the feathers also tipped with pale rufous ; edge of the wing fulvous ; 

 tail blackish brown, the outer web of the outermost feather, except 

 at the extreme base, and half of the inner web, white; the next 

 outermost blackish brown on the outer web, and for nearly two-thirds 

 its length on the inner web, blackish brown, the rest white on their 

 inner web only ; centre tail feathers edged with pale rufous ; bill 

 reddish ; legs pale brown. 



Length. — 5'75 to 6 inches, wing 3i, tail 3, tarsi •75. 



Hah. — Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Central India, Beloochistan, 

 Persia and Afghanistan. Occurs also in Kutch, Rajputana, Guzerat, 

 Concan and the Deccan. 



Specimens from Jeempeer and Jacobabad (Sind), and Quetta and 

 Dozan (Beloochistan) have the chin and the streak above the greyish 

 moustachial one unspotted buff, except in a single specimen from Dozan. 



Emberiza stewarti, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiii. 215; Gould. B. As. 

 pi. Emberiza caniceps, Gould. B. As. pt. vi. pi. 16; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 

 375, No. 718 ; Murray, Hdbh., ZooL, 8fc., Sind, p. 182.— The White- 

 capped Bunting. 



Male. — Forehead and crown greyish white ; lores and a broad 

 supercilium extending to the nape, black ; chin and throat black ; back, 

 scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts, flanks, and a broad band across the 

 chest reddish chestnut; the feathers of the back in some specimens with 



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