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DAUURIAN BUNTING. 



Bunting: above rufous, with a crimson tinge: 

 beneath sulphur-coloured : wings rusty grey : it is 

 very scarce. 



DAUURIAN BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza spodocephala.) 



E. passerina, subtus Jlavescens, capite et collo cano-cinereis, capis- 

 tro nigro. 



Bunting above sparrow-coloured; beneath yellowish, with the 

 head and neck hoary cinereous ; capistrum black. 



Emberiza spodocephala. Gmel. Syst. Nat, 1. 87 1. — Lath. Ind. 

 Orn. 1. 419. 74. 



Dauurian Bunting. Lath. Syn. Sup. II, 202. 11. 



The plumage of this bird on the upper part is 

 similar to that of a Sparrow ; on the under parts 

 yellowish : capistrum black : the head and neck 

 hoary ash-colour : size of the Reed Bunting. In- 

 habits the torrents of the Dauurian Alps; but very 

 rare. 



