320 BUNTING. 



rump, and wing coverts fine rufous, or cinnamon-colour ; ends of a 

 few of the coverts whitish; quills dusky, margined with pale ferru- 

 ginous, beneath pale ash ; tail even at the end, marked as the quills; 

 under wing coverts mottled brown, and dusky white; legs pale 

 brown. — Inhabits India. From the same collection. 



33.— CHINESE BUNTING. 



Emberiza Sinensis, Lid. Orn. i. 400. Gm. Lin. i. 869. Shaw's Zool. ix. 368. 

 Ortolan de la Chine, Soti. Voy. Ind. ii. 201. 

 Chinese Bunting, Gen. Si/n. iii. 169. 



LENGTH six inches and a half. Bill stout, grey ; crown pale 

 rufous; round the eye pale yellow; jaws blue grey; body above 

 brownish, the feathers with pale yellowish edges; behind the neck 

 cinereous; quills dusky black, with pale edges; beneath wholly 

 yellow, with a reddish tinge from the throat to the breast ; tail some- 

 what forked, dusky, with yellowish margins; the wings reach to the 

 rump ; legs pale red. 



Inhabits the southern provinces of China, in October, November, 

 and December ; also in India. About the province of Oude, called 

 Gundoom. — From drawings in the collection of Lord Mountnorris. 



That described by Sonnerat had a streak of brown down the 

 middle of the belly. 



34.— BARRED-TAILED BUNTING. 



Emberiza faseiata, Ind. Orn. i. 40S. Gm. Lin.'i. S78. Shaw's Zool. ix. 371. 

 Barred-tailed Bunting, Gen. Si/n. iii. 1S7. 



SIZE of our Bunting. Bill flesh-colour; nostrils covered with 

 small tufts of feathers ; on the cheeks, and beneath the bill, other 

 similar tufts; head pale brown : back, wings, and breast, the same, 



