PAKHI DEKHOON PAKHI CHINOON ... OBSERVE THE BIRD AND RECOGNIZE...STRIOLATED BUNTING.

PAKHI DEKHOON PAKHI CHINOON #614.. OBSERVE THE BIRD AND RECOGNIZE...STRIOLATED BUNTING... GELPEN AND COLOURED PENCIL...9*8INCH... 2015...[From the photograph of Mr. Siddharth Damle] ... The striolated bunting (Emberiza striolata) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.
It is a resident breeder of dry country from the Canary Islands, east through south-west Asia to north-western India.
It breeds in remote wadis (not around human habitation like the related house bunting), usually close to streams, laying two to four eggs in a nest on the ground or in a hole in the ground. Its natural food consists of seeds, or when feeding young, insects.
It is 14 cm long, similar in size to the house bunting and smaller than the similarly plumaged rock bunting. The breeding male has a chestnut body, and grey head with darker streaking and a white supercilium and moustachial streak. The female's head has a brown tint to the grey, and more diffused streaking.
The striolated bunting has stronger facial striping and a paler belly than the north African house bunting.
The song, given from a perch, is similar, but weaker than, that of the common chaffinch.[info:wikipedia]