BUNTING.
Above reddish brown with darker centres on back ; crown and throat greyish, streaked ; lores and post-ocular stripe blackish ; eyebrow white and narrow ; breast and underparts cinnamon brown. Bill dark brown above, paler below. Legs and feet brownish flesh. Wing 75-So. Tarsus 18-19. Bill 10-ti ? duller generally, head grey brown streaked, throat (lull red brown.
1'esiden1.—N.W. Africa ; Tunis and Algeria, south of Atlas, Morocco, south and central parts.
The typical form " E. s. striolata " is W. Asiatic and is lighter in colour.
Emberiza schcenielus schoeniclus (L.). REED BUNTING. Fr. Bruant de Roseaux ; Ger. Rohrammer ; Mt/. Migliarino de palude ; Swed. Safsparf.
(3' summer. Above black with rufous margins, outer margins of wing coverts and secondaries chestnut ; rump and upper tail coverts grey with few streaks ; head and throat black, malar stripe joining ntichal collar white ; beneath white, flanks slightly streaked brownish black. Bill dark brown. Legs and feet dull brown. Wing 74-83. Tarsus 19-2o. Bill 7-S long, 5-5.5 high, 4-5.5 broad. In winter, black of head and throat and white collar partially obscured by red or grey-brown tips, back and wings more chestnut. ? lacks black on head and throat and the white collar ; crown chestnut, dark streaked ; upper tail coverts rufous, streaked ; ear coverts and malar stripe dark brown, former mixed with chestnut ; eyebrow, face stripe, and throat creamy white and often some rufous feathers on chest. Wing 70-77. Bases of head feathers are black in all stages.
Breeds.—Britain ; Continental Europe north to Finmark, and in N. Russia south to N. Spain, Italy and N.W. of Hungary ; also in Siberia. Migratory ; occurs in winter over S. and S.E. Europe to Black Sea and N. Africa, Morocco to Egypt (in small numbers).
E. schceniclus canneti. (Brehm). Bill thicker and larger ; upper
and lower mandibles about equal in height, upper more curved than in "sch(eniclus." Bill about 9 m.m. long ; height 5.5-6.5.
Breeds.—S.E. Europe ; I lungary and Dalmatia through Balkan Peninsula to Greece ; also Spain and Portugal. Occurs Egypt in winter.
Emberiza tschusii tschusii Reiser and Almasy.
Like " schreniclus" but paler ; margins of wings and back pale cinnamon ; rump and upper tail coverts paler grey. Bill; thick, and comparatively short, on (H.).
Breeds.—Delta of Danube to S. Russia and S.W. of Caspian Sea. Has occurred in Greece in winter. Accidental in Britain.
E. tschusii compilator Matthews and Iredale (E. palustris auct). In like "schceniclus." of and back chestnut. (W.).
Breeds.—Italy, Sicily, S. France, E. Spain. Accidental in Britain.
E. tschusii othmari Hartert. Darker above than "tschusii," less brown above than "compilator." Bill than in "tschusii." Breeds.—S. and Greece.
E. tschusii yolgm Stresemann. e (H.) and thicker billed.
Breeds.—Sarepta and districts (Russia) ; occurs in winter Lenkoran district of Caucasus.
Emberiza pyrrhuloides pyrrhuloides Bill than in "schmniclus" or " tschusii," thick and ; upper mandible than lower, point rounded. Above feather rusty yellowish rump yellowish unstriped ; below white, rarely with indications of stripes. e Tarsus 2 1-22. Bill, (H.).
Resident —Caucasus, Caspian shores, and E. into Asia. Once occurred E. pyrrhuloides reiseri Hartert. Bill as typical form ; above much darker, of feathers rusty brown ; rump darker flanks narrowly striped. 2 m.m. shorter.
Resident.—Thessaly.