EMBEILIZINX, a sub - family of birds of the family Fringillidto. They comprise the genera Emberiza, Euspiza, and Melophus, the buntings, ortolans, coni buntings, and crested buntings. Three or four visit India during the winter.
Emberiza pithyornis, Pallas, white - crowned bunting.
E. cia, Linn., white - browed bunting of S. Europe, is common in the 1V. Hinaalaya.
E. pusilla, plentiful in Sikkim, haa occasionally been observed in Europe, even so far west as Leyden.
E. fueata of N. Asia, Japan, and common in the 1V. Himalaya, occurs sometimes in considerable numbers in Lower Bengal.
E. melanocephaks of S. Europe is common in parts of India, E. miliaria, the common bunting of Europe, W. Asia, Arabia (Schlegel), Barbary...
E. citrinella is the yellow bunting of Europe, to beyond the polar circle ; and is replaced in tho VT. Himalaya by E. pithyornis, an inhabitant also of Siberia, which occurs'rarely in W. Europe.—Blyth. . EMBLICA OFFICINALIS.' Gartn.
Phyllanthus emblica, Linn,. I Myrobalanus emblica, B. Aonla, Anola, . . BENG. Kadondong, . . MALAY.
. . CAN. Nel . . . . MALEAL. Emblio myrobalan, FNG. Ambla, ,Amla, . . PAW., MvpagaMcves liAgAvete, GR. '111Griti, Amalaca, SANSK.
Amlild, AmRica, . HIND. Amusada nelti, . SINGH. Aruli, Aungra;. . „ . . . . , TAAL Malaca, . . . MALAY. Usirika, Amla kaniu, TEL, A crooked tree, almost the thickness of a man's body. It grows in Ceylon; in the south of the Peninsula, in Canara, the Southern Mahratta country, the Konkan, the Delthan, in the forests of the Godavery and Circars, in Bengal, on the banks of the Jumna, the Panjab, all over the forests of Kamaon, in the outer Himalaya, and eastwards in the Moluccas. The wood is hard and durable, is used for boxes, and for veneering. Is good for well rings, does not decay under water, and is well adapted ' for turning. The strongly astringent bark is'used as a tanning material, and in dysentery arid diarrhoea. The myrobalan fruit can be pickled or preserved in sugar. Native women consider the powder of the seeds to possess cooling properties, and to be good for the hair, and use it mixed with either water or milk. The fruit is also 'used for making ink, and to obtain a black dye.--Beddonze ; .111r. Rohde ; Cleg. Rept.; O'Sh.; Stetvart I Honigberger.