BUNTING. 327 



Inhabits the pine forests of Catherinesburgh ; met with on the 

 poplars and willows in the Islands of the Irtisch, and other rivers in 

 Siberia ; found also in Kamtschatka : the song much like that of the 

 Reed Sparrow. 



A. — Length six inches and a half. Head and neck before fer- 

 ruginous ; nape and behind the neck rufous yellow ; back pale ash 

 colour ; wing coverts dark red brown, with yellowish margins ; under 

 parts from the breast, yellow; tail hollowed out in the middle; quills 

 and tail dusky, beneath pale ash-colour. 



The female has the head and upper parts rufous brown, the crown 

 marked with short black lines ; back streaked with brown ; wings 

 and tail as in the male ; beneath pale dusky white ; belly and vent 

 white. 



Inhabits India, and seems to be a mere Variety of the Yellow- 

 breasted Species. — From the drawings of General Hardwicke. 



46.— SANDWICH BUNTING. 



Emberiza Arctica, Ind. Orn. i. 414. Shaw's Zool. ix. 397. 

 — ^— ^^ Sandwicensis, Gm. Lin. i. 875. 

 Unalashka Bunting, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 229. 

 Sandwich Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. 202. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill and legs dusky ; plumage above 

 brown, the feathers dashed down the shafts with a darker colour ; 

 at the nostrils a streak of yellow, passing over the eyes to the hind- 

 head ; from the gape a dark one, going under the eye ; sides of 

 the head, between the streaks, dusky ; under parts of the body dusky 

 white; quills dusky brown ; with paler edges; tail brown. 



This was met with at Aoonalaschka, and Sandwich Sound. 



