38 EMBERIZID.fi. 



After the autumn moult the male has the top of the head, 

 nape, and ear-coverts, deeply tinged with brownish-red ; the 

 feathers of the back and scapulars broadly fringed with red- 

 dish-ash ; the breast, rump, and upper tail-coverts are more 

 or less tinged with brownish-red ; the rest of the under parts 

 white. This plumage is also common to the female ; and in 

 the feathering of this period they represent the Tawny Bunt- 

 ing of authors. 



Young birds of the year have still more of the tawny 

 appearance than the adult, and the white of the under parts 

 of the body is slightly tinged with ash. 



The egg of the Snow Bunting is represented in figure 97. 



