THE GREY-HEADED BUNTING. 
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P. rutilans ; and it has the lower plumage much darker. In P. assimilis 
the female has the patch on the side of the neck under the ear-coverts pale 
yellow and not fulvous_, concolorous with the throat ; the chin and throat 
are dark brown_, not concolorous with the breast ; the rump is distinctly- 
chestnut^ and not merely rufescent olive-brown ; and^ lastly, the abdomen 
is distinctly tinged with yellow. 
From P. cinnamomeus the male differs by having the cheeks and sides of 
the neck pure white, and by having no yellow on the lower plumage. The 
females are much alike ; but in P, assimilis the chin and throat are dark 
brown, while in P. cinnamomeus the chin and throat are concolorous, or 
nearly so, with the lower plumage. The two species differ also in size, the 
wing in P. cinnamomeus being 3 and the tail 2*3 inches. There is no other 
Sparrow with which P. assimilis could be confounded. P. ouratensis is a 
species from China which I have not been able to examine. 
This Sparrow was originally obtained at Tonghoo; but subsequently 
Captain Wardlaw Ramsay met witb it in Karennee. Nothing is known 
about its habits or distribution. 
Subfamily EMBERIZIN^. 
Genus EMBERIZxi, Linn. 
332. EMBERIZA FUCATA. 
THE GREY-HEADED BUNTING. 
Emberiza fucata, Pall. JReis. Russ. Reichs, iii. p. 698 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 375 ; 
Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 95 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 326 ; Hume 8f Dav. 
S. F. Yi. p. 407 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 603 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 107 ; 
Oates, S. F. x. p. 234. Citrinella fucata, Hume^ Nests and Eggs, p. 465 ; 
id. S. F. iii. p. 157. 
Description. — Male in summer. Head^ nape and sides of the neck grey, 
with black streaks ; back and scapulars reddish brown, with large black 
streaks ; rump reddish brown, without streaks ; upper tail-coverts fawn- 
brown, with dark shaft-stripes ; small and median wing- coverts chestnut, 
the latter with black shaft-stripes ; greater coverts and tertiaries blackish, 
with broad reddish-brown edgings to both webs ; quills brown, with the 
outer webs edged reddish brown ; lores and feathers round the eye mixed 
brown and grey ; ear-coverts chestnut ; cheeks and a stripe under the ears 
white ; below this a thin black line, widening on the neck and forming a 
gorget across the breast much interrupted with white ; chin and throat 
