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ground_, thickly and carefully lined with fine dead grass. It contained 
five eggs, which were pale grey, blotched and spotted with darker and 
paler grey. 
334. EMBERIZA RUTILA. 
THE CHESTNUT BUNTING. 
Emberiza rutila, Pall. Reis. Russ. ReichSj iii. p. 698 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 95 ; David 
et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 331 ; W ardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 462 ; Oates, S. F. x. 
p. 234. Citrinella rutila, Hume, S. F. iii. p. 157. Euspiza rutila, Hume 
^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 408 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 107. 
Description. — Male in summer. The whole head and upper breast, as well 
as the whole upper plumage, including the wing-coverts, chestnut, each 
feather except those of the rump fringed with greenish; these fringes 
are liable to be worn off" and vary in depth ; primaries, secondaries and 
primary-coverts brown, narrowly edged on the outer webs with olive-brown ; 
tertiaries brown, the outer webs suffused with chestnut ; tail brown, edged 
with olive-brown, occasionally the outer feather has a dash of white on the 
inner w^eb ; breast, abdomen, vent and under tail-coverts deep oil-yellow ; 
flanks greenish brown. 
The male in winter does not appear to differ from the male in summer. 
Female at all seasons. Top of the head, neck, back and scapulars olive- 
brown, with dark streaks ; rump and upper tail- coverts chestnut, the latter 
duller and tinged with grey ; wing-coverts dark brown, edged and tipped 
with whity brown ; quills dark brown, edged exteriorly with whity brown ; 
tail plain brown ; a dull fulvous-brown supercilium running to the nape ; 
sides of the head fulvous-brown, mottled with brown ; cheeks, chin and 
throat dull fulvous-brown; a narrow, distinct, dark -brown moustachial 
streak under the cheeks ; remainder of lower plumage dull oil-yellow, 
faintly striated with brown on all the parts except the flanks, where the 
streaks are very numerous and strong. 
The young male has only the head and rump chestnut, and the other 
parts are much as in the female, the brown of the upper parts being richer 
and tinged with chestnut. 
Bill brown ; legs and feet flesh-colour. 
Length 6'3 inches, tail 2'5, wing 2*9, tarsus '7, bill from gape '5. 
The Chestnut Bunting occurs in various parts of Burmah as a winter 
visitor. Mr. Blanford got it at Bassein in Pegu. In the same Division 
it has been obtained near Rangoon by Mr. Hume, who states that it 
also occurs in Upper Pegu. Capt. Wardlaw Bamsay says that it is the 
