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Cretzscliiuaer. Its European localities are Spain, in 
tlie Andalusian provinces of which country it is said 
by Teinininck to be common. Bonaparte gives Lusi- 
tania as a locality. 
In the “Revue de Zoologie,” for March, 1857, it 
is placed by M. De Selys-Long’champs in the list of 
those birds admitted into the European fauna without 
sufficient authority. Temminck, however, says of it, — 
“Inhabits Andalusia, where it is sufficiently common, 
and perhaps also in other parts of southern Europe, 
which is the more probable since E. ccesia has been 
found in Greece, where it is very plentiful. The Strio- 
lated Bunting is found in winter on the coast of Bar- 
bary, and has been brought from Egypt by Ehrenherg 
and Riippell; it also appears in winter in the neigh- 
bourhood of Abukol and Schendi. It lives among the 
bushes.” 
On the whole, I only admit this bird into my work 
provisionally, and as a doubtful European species, for 
whose accidental appearance we are more indebted to 
the proximity of the Spanish and African frontiers, than 
to any indigenous claim it can set up. If it should 
wander, however, and become settled in Europe, I hope 
that its likeness may he recognised from the figure 
which I give, and which is taken from a male specimen 
sent me by Mr. Tristram, marked “Nubia.” 
The adult male has the head, the cheeks, nape, and 
breast of a jmre slate grey, marked with longitudinal 
spots of black; above the eyes, and from the angle of 
the jaw, and base of lower mandible proceed three 
white bands ; scapularies, wing coverts, and rump lively 
russet red; primaries and outer tail feathers dark brown, 
edged with russet; middle tail feathers entirely dark 
brown; abdomen, flanks, and under wing coverts light 
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