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Birds of Indian Subcontinent

Emberiza fucata

Emberiza fucata, Pall.

719. :- Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 375.

THE GREY-HEADED BUNTING.

Length, 6.75; expanse, 10.3; wing, 3.5; tail, 2.5 ; tarsus, 0.75 ; bill at front, 0.4.

Bill reddish, dusky on culmen; irides dark-brown; feet, fleshy-orange.

Above, head and neck darkish-grey, with some darker mesial streaks; scapulars, back and rump deep rufous or rufescent-brown, also streaked with black, except on the rump and upper tail-coverts; ear-coverts deep-rufous; a whitish supercilium; wings and tail dark-brown, broadly edged with reddish-fawn color; and the outer feathers of the tail partly white on their inner webs; throat, fore-neck, and breast, greyish-white; a narrow black streak from each corner of the gape, widening as it descends, and forming a gorget with the opposite one; below this white; then an interrupted pectoral band of rufous; and the belly whitish, tinged with rufous on the flanks and sides of vent.

The Grey-headed Bunting is not uncommon during the winter months, on the stony hills in the vicinity of Neemuch. It is also recorded by Jerdon from Mhow, Central India.

BookTitle: 
Handbook to the Birds of the Bombay Presidency
Reference: 
Barnes, Henry Edwin. Handbook to the birds of the Bombay Presidency, 1885.
Title in Book: 
Emberiza fucata
Spp Author: 
Pall.
Book Author: 
Barnes, H. Edwin
Year: 
1885
Page No: 
269
Common name: 
Grey-headed Bunting
M_ID: 
32075
M_CN: 
Chestnut-eared Bunting
M_SN: 
Emberiza fucata
Term name: 
id: 
11818

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