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CATALOGUE. 
surface, wings, and tail pale olive-brown, with a streak of dark brown 
down the centre of each feather ; a shght tinge of rufous on the 
upper tail-coverts ; under-surface pale buffy brown, streaked with 
dark brown. 
Length 6 in., of wing 3|- in., tail 2f in., and tarsus -^^ of an inch. 
Genus Euspiza, Bonaparte (1832). 
Htpocentoe, Cabanis, Cat. B. Mus. Jleine, p. 131 
(1851). 
Geanativoka, Bonap. (1853), Comptes Bendus^p, 
Onyohospina, Bonap, (1853), Comptes Rendus, p, 
737. EUSPIZA SIMILLIMA, Blyth. 
Euspiza simillima, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XYIII. p. 811 
(1849) ; Catal. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 128. Bonap. y 
C. G. Av. p. 468. 
Granativora simillima, Bonap., Comptes Bendus (1853), 
p. . 
Emberiza melanocephala, apud SgJces, B. Z. S. (1832), 
p. 93. Jerdon, Ifadr. Journ. XI. p. 29. Blyth, 
J. A. S. Beng. XIII. p. 957. Burgess, B. Z. S. 
(1854),^. 160. 
The Indian Black-headed Bunting. 
A. B. . Dukhun. Presented by Colonel Sykes. 
Differs from jEJ. melanocephala in its much smaller size ; the closed 
wing measuring 3iin., instead of 4 in., and the rest in proportion. 
" Common in Western India, and appears in considerable flocks at 
the ripening of the bread-grain {^Andropogon Sorghum, Linn.) in 
December. Granivorous." — (Sykes.) 
Lieut. Burgess, in his notes, remarks : " The Patel, or head-man, 
of the town of Jintee, near the river Bheema, in the Deccan, assured 
me that these birds, or some of them, remain to breed in the thick 
babool copses that clothe the banks of the river near that town ; but 
I did not observe the nests or eggs. I believe that the greater part 
migrate much about the same time as the rose-coloured Pastor." 
738. EUSPIZA LUTEOLA, Sparmann Sp. 
Emberiza luteola, Sparm., Mus. Carls, fasc. IV. t. 93 
(1789), ? . Lath., Hist. lY.p. 333. 
Euspiza luteola, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 128. 
