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2014-05-14
Chimgan |
© Sveta Ashby
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Male White-capped Bunting is rusty-chestnut above. Head, neck-flanks and craw are grey. Throat and broad eye-strip are black. Breast, fore-belly and flanks are same color as on back; other underparts are buffy-white. Flight and tail feathers are brownish. Webs of central pair of tail feathers, scapulars, secondaries and greater wing coverts have rusty edges. On outer pairs of tail feathers the white terminal spots occupy more than half of inner web. Legs are pale-horn-color, bill is blackish, eyes are brownish. In fresh autumn plumage feathers have broad pale edges which hid black and chestnut colors. Female is brownish dark streaked above. Uppertail is plain chestnut. Underparts are dirty-buff with narrow dark streaks and chestnut washed spots on breast. Juveniles are generally buffy with large brown spots. Sizes: male – wing 77-84, tail 67-81, tarsus 15.8-19.6, bill 8.8-10.6; female – wing 74-81, tail 68-72, tarsus 17.2-20.0, bill 9.3-10.3 mm. Weight: males 15.5-20.8, females 16.0-22.5 gr.
"Птицы Казахстана" том 5. "Наука". Алма-Ата, 1974.
