1845.] or little known Species of Birds. 555 



the wings blackish, each feather margined with rufescent, palest at 

 the tips of the greater and second range of coverts : rump plain 

 rufescent-greenish : tail dusky, with the terminal two-thirds of its 

 outermost feather white, except the final third of the narrow outer web ; 

 and about a third of the inner web of the penultimate feather is also 

 white, obliquely separated : bill dusky, the lower mandible whitish 

 except at tip ; and feet pale. From Tipperah, whence a fine specimen 

 has been presented to the Society by M. Courjon. This can hardly 

 be the male of E. sordida, J. A. S. XIII, 958. 



It may be that I was wrong in referring a Peshawur female in the 

 collection formed by the late Sir Alexander Burnes and Dr. Lord, to 

 the E. icterica of Central India, in XIII, 957 ; for both sexes of the 

 Peshawur bird are figured in a drawing made under Sir A. Burnes's 

 superintendence ; and though the specimen has certainly every appear- 

 ance of being the female E. icterica, the male is not represented to 

 have any distinct rusty tinge on the head, which is nearly concolorous 

 with the back, except that the pale yellow hue of the under-parts is 

 made to surround the ear-coverts, and thence to ascend on the crown, 

 posterior to the eye, so as to divide the brown of the crown from that 

 of the occiput. Should it prove to be a distinct species, and not 

 merely icterica represented indifferently, it might bear the name E. 

 personata.* 



The following is a remarkable genus, the affinities of which have 

 puzzled me a good deal, but (now that the Society's specimens have 

 been mounted, and I can judge better of their characters,) I 

 incline to think, with Mr. Hodgson, that it is really related to the 

 Larks, though tending to assume the character of some of the Crate- 

 ropodince, as Pellorniurn and its allies, yet without being truly affined 



* Since writing the above, Mr. Stewart has favored us with many specimens of E. 

 icterica from the vicinity of Agra, where the species appears to be very common ; and 

 the females seem tome to be decidedly identical in species with Burnes's Peshawur 

 female, though the back is less rufescent. Burnes's specimen is, however, in old 

 and worn plumage, whilst the Agra specimens have their feathers newly put forth. 



1 may likewise notice here, that Lord Arthur Hay has obtained E. Lathami, male 

 and female, from Hong Kong; the species certainly identical with the Indian one. 



These, and all the other Indian Buntings which I know of, pertain to the division 

 Euspiza of the Prince of Canino, at least according to the classification of Mr. G. R. 

 Gray, which I am not altogether satisfied with. The type of Euspiza is Emb. melano- 

 cephala of Scopoli ; which is distinct enough in the form of its beak. 



