White-capped Bunting
Emberiza stewarti (Blyth, 1854)
Emberizidae — Buntings
White-capped Bunting, Emberiza stewarti, is a bunting of the Oriental Region, breeding in montane temperate dry woods across eastern and southern Kazakhstan, eastern Uzbekistan and far eastern Turkmenistan, then through Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, Afghanistan and north-western Pakistan to Kashmir and central Himachal Pradesh. Outside the breeding season it moves to far western and central India, where it uses open areas. It is placed in the family Emberizidae. The species was described by Blyth in 1854.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Emberizidae — Buntings
- Breeding range
- Oriental Region: montane temperate c Asia dry woods: ec, s Kazakhstan, e Uzbekistan and far e Turkmenistan, through Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan through Afghanistan and n, wc Pakistan, Kashmir to c Himachal Pradesh
- Nonbreeding range
- to far w and c India in open areas
