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BUNTING. Class II. 



XIX. 

 BUNTING. 



BILL (Irong and conic, the fides of each man- 

 dible bending inwards : in the roof of the up- 

 per, a hard knob, of ufe to break and commi- 

 nute hard feeds. 



Petrone, Capparone, Stardac- 



chio. Zinan. 63. 

 Emberiza Miliaria. Lin. Jyji, 



308. 

 Faun. Suec. fp. 228. 

 Korn Larkor. Lin. it. /can. 



292. tab. 4. 

 Cimhris Korn-Lsrke. Noweg. 



Knotter. Brunnich 247. 

 Graue Ammer. Fri/chy I. 6. 

 Brafler. Kram. 372. 

 Br, Zool. III. plate W. f. 7. 



1 of this genus, is fingularly conftruded ; 

 the fides of the upper mandible form a fharp an- 

 gle, bending inwards towards the lower \ and in the 

 roof of the former is a hard knob, adapted to bruife 

 corn or other hard feeds. 



The throat, bread, fides, and belly are of a 

 yellowifli white : the head and upper part of the 

 body of a pale brown, tinged with olive •, each of 

 which (except the belly) are marked with oblong 

 black fpots; towards the rump the fpots grow faint- 

 er. The quil-feathers are dufky, their exterior 



edges 



