BUNTING. 319 



Among the drawings of Sir J. Anstruther is a similar bird, about 

 five inches long; top of the head, and as far as the middle of the 

 back, fine light clay-coloured ash, with darker spots ; lower part of 

 the back and rump pale rust; sides of the head and neck before, to 

 the breast, white ; through the eye a mottled streak of black and 

 grey, passing backwards, and a second, broader, from the chin, in the 

 direction of the lower jaw ; breast waved pale rust and white ; from 

 thence the under parts are white ; wing coverts pale reddish brown ; 

 the rest of the wing black, the feathers margined with yellowish 

 white ; tail the same, and appears divided in the middle, as if forked, 

 outer feather white. 



Inhabits India ; called in the drawing Fen Sparrow. 



31. —BLACK-CHINNED BUNTING. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill dusky pale ash ; head and neck fine 

 pale grey ; from the nostrils a black streak, passing over the eyes, 

 and, curving a little downwards, goes on to the nape, and unites with 

 the one from the opposite side ; chin black, continuing in a pointed 

 curve on each side of the throat ; back reddish brown, or ferruginous, 

 proceeding forwards to the breast, and there forming a broad bar ; 

 lower part of the breast, belly, and thighs, pale yellowish white ; 

 rump pale ferruginous ; bend of the wing pale ash ; the rest of the 

 coverts, and second quills brown, with pale margins ; greater quills 

 dusky ; tail pale ash-colour, hollowed out in the middle ; one or 

 more of the outer feathers white ; legs pale red. 



Inhabits India. — In the collection of General Hardwicke. 



32 —INDIAN BUNTING. 



LENGTH six inches and a half. Bill black ; head, neck, 

 breast, and beneath, pale ash-colour ; lower part of the back, the 



