64 Yellow-browed bunting. 



is, however, accidental. One specimen was shot in the 

 neighbourhood of Lille, in France, and is preserved in 

 the museum of that town. 



Of the propagation and habits of this species I am 

 sorry that I cannot refer to any authentic details. 



The following description is from Degland: — "The 

 male has the top of the head black, with a longitu- 

 dinal white line along the middle, which mingles 

 behind with a kind of half collar of the same colour; 

 a large and long citron yellow band above each eye; 

 upper parts of the body ferruginous brownish grey, 

 darker in the middle of the feathers, which are russet 

 on their borders; inferior parts grey white on the 

 neck, with a kind of breast-plate on the crop of brown 

 and russet feathers; the abdomen pure grey white, 

 with small spots of brown at the base of the crop and 

 on the flanks ; primaries brownish, bordered with russet 

 outside. Tail quills brown, three-quarters of the most 

 external white, with the end brown outside; the two 

 next to the external have the distal half white. Beak 

 and feet brownish; iris brown." 



It has been figured by Pallas, and by De Selys, in 

 the Faune Beige, (1842,) vol. i, pi. 4, fig. 1. 



