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THE YELLOW-BREASTED BUNTING. 
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common Bunting o£ the higher Karin hills and that it is also found 
in the plains of the Tonghoo district. I have never myself met with it. 
Mr. Davison tells us that it is a visitant to the more northern parts of 
Tenasserim ; and I have seen a specimen shot by Capt. Bingham in the 
Thoungyeen valley. 
In the winter it is found in South China and, according to Dr. Tiraud, 
in Cochin China ; also in the Indo-Burmese countries and the South-eastern 
Himalayas. It summers in North China and, according to Temminck 
and Schlege!, also in Japan. 
There is nothing particular noted about its habits. 
335. EMBERIZA AUEEOLA. 
THE YELLOW-BREASTED BUNTING. 
Emberiza aureola, Pall. Beis. Russ. Reichs, ii. p. 711 ; Dresser, Birds Bur. iv. 
p. 223, pi. ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 332 ; Anders. Yunnan Bxped. p. 602 ; 
Oates, S. F. x. p. 234. Mirafra flavicollis, McClell. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 163. 
Emberiza flavogularis, Bl. J. A. S. B. xviii. pp. 86, 811. Euspiza aureola, 
Jerd. B. hid. ii. p. 380 ; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 169 ; Bl. Sf Wald. B. Burm. p. 94 j 
Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 461 ; Hume 8f Dav. 8. F. vi. p. 409 ; Hume, S. F. 
viii. p. 107 ; Scidly, S. F. viii. p. 334 ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 193. 
Description. — Male in summer. Forehead, sides of the head, chin and 
upper throat black ; remainder of the head, back, rump and scapulars rich 
chestnut, the feathers generally margined with faint yellowish white, which 
margins, however, soon get abraded and in consequence are absent in some 
birds ; lesser wing-coverts smoky brown ; median coverts white ; greater 
coverts chestnut, brownish near the shaft and edged with white near the 
tip ; quills brown, the primaries edged externally with whity brown, the 
others with pale chestnut ; upper tail-coverts pale rufous-brown ; tail 
brown, edged paler, the outer web of the outer feather white for two thirds 
of its length from the base and the inner web with a diagonal streak 
of white ; the next feather generally with a small obscure mark of white 
on the inner web ; lower throat, breast and abdomen bright yellow ; 
across the breast a well-defined band of deep-chestnut feathers slightly 
fringed with black ; sides of the body yellow, with brown streaks ; 
vent and under tail-coverts pale yellow, the latter with a few obscure 
streaks. 
Male in winter. There is no black on the head ; the whole upper plumage 
is chestnut, with very broad greyish-yellow fringes ; the ear-coverts are 
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