326 BUNTING. 



44.— DWARF BUNTING. 



Emberiza pusilla, Ind. Orn. i. 414. Gm. Lin. i. 871. Pall, reise, iii. 697. 20. Shaw's 



Zool.ix. 394. 

 Dwarf Bunting, Gen. Syn. Sup.W. 201. 



THIS is not quiie so large as the Siskin. Plumage in general 

 not unlike that of the Rustic Bunting ; on the head and sides five 

 testaceous bands, the intermediate spaces between which are black ; 

 the throat spotted. — Inhabits the rivers, and larch grounds, among 

 the torrents of the Dauurian Alps. 



45.— YELLOW-BREASTED BUNTING. 



Emberiza aureola, Ind. Orn. 414. Gm. Lin. i. S75. Pall. It. ii. 711. 23. Georg. 174. 



Shaiv's Zoo/, ix. 402. 

 Emberiza Sibirica, 2V. Com. Petr. xv. 483. 1. Falck, It. iii. 398. 

 Yellow-breasted Bunting, Gen. Syn.iu. 201. Arct. Zool. ii. 366. A. 



BILL and legs pale, edges of the upper mandible blackish ; 

 forehead dusky black, with a shade of the same on the crown ; hind- 

 head, nape, and between the wings, rufous; the feathers fringed with 

 grey at the tips ; back and rump the same, but more hoary, and 

 some of the shafts blotched with black ; scapulars white ; outer webs 

 of the second wing coverts rufous, the edges of them whitish, forming 

 a dash of the same on the wing; quills brown, edged with white; 

 secondaries brown, within ferruginous; cheeks and throat black; 

 breast and belly yellow ; across the breast a ferruginous crescent ; 

 under tail coverts white ; tail a little forked, brown, the outer feathers 

 with a longitudinal stripe of white on the inner web. 



The female has the crown blacker, and the margins of the 

 feathers on the back more hoary; otherwise like the male. 



