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Cretzschmaer. Its European localities are Spain, in 

 the Andalusian provinces of which country it is said 

 by Temminck to be common. Bonaparte gives Lusi- 

 tania as a locality. 



In the "Revue de Zoologie," for March, 1857, it 

 is placed by M. De Selys-Longchamps in the list of 

 those birds admitted into the European fauna without 

 sufficient authority. Temminck, however, says of it, — 

 "Inhabits Andalusia, where it is sufficiently common, 

 and perhaps also in other parts of southern Europe, 

 which is the more probable since E. ccesia has been 

 found in Greece, where it is very plentiful. The Strio- 

 lated Bunting is found in winter on the coast of Bar- 

 bary, and has been brought from Egypt by Ehrenberg 

 and Riippell; it also appears in winter in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Abukol and Schendi. It lives among the 

 bushes." 



On the whole, I only admit this bird into my work 

 provisionally, and as a doubtful European species, for 

 whose accidental appearance we are more indebted to 

 the proximity of the Spanish and African frontiers, than 

 to any indigenous claim it can set up. If it should 

 wander, however, and become settled in Europe, I hope 

 that its likeness may be recognised from the figure 

 which I give, and which is taken from a male specimen 

 sent me by Mr. Tristram, marked "Nubia." 



The adult male has the head, the cheeks, nape, and 

 breast of a pure slate grey, marked with longitudinal 

 spots of black; above the eyes, and from the angle of 

 the jaw, and base of lower mandible proceed three 

 white bands; scapularies, wing coverts, and rump lively 

 russet red; primaries and outer tail feathers dark brown, 

 edged with russet; middle tail feathers entirely dark 

 brown; abdomen, flanks, and under wing coverts light 



