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two middle broadly edged with brownish-red, the outer with 

 an oblique band of white including nearly the whole of the 

 outer web, and the next margined towards the end, and tipped 

 with the same. A pale yellow band from the base of the bill, 

 over the eyes ; above it a semicircular band of black, which 

 includes the erectile tufts, but the feathers are edged with 

 light reddish-brown. The loral space and a band below tho 

 eye, curving downwards, black, as is a large transverse band 

 on the fore-neck, the feathers margined with whitish. The 

 throat is pale yellow ; the anterior part of the breast faintly 

 spotted with reddish-brown ; the sides dull brownish-red ; the 

 rest of the lower parts wdiite. 



Length to end of tail 7i inches ; extent of wings 13| ; bill 

 along the ridge j\, along the edge of lower mandible j% ; w^ng 

 from flexure 4i% ; tail 3 ; tarsus ^i ; first toe 4| twelfths, its 

 claw j% ; second toe 4f twelfths, its claw 3^ twelfths ; third 

 toe j\, its claw j^ '■> fourth toe /^, its claw ^2. 



Female in Winter. — The female has the upper parts nearly 

 as in the male, the low^er greyish-white. The top of the head 

 is slightly streaked with black, but the band on its fore part is 

 very inconspicuous. The wings and tail are as in the male. 



Length to end of tail *7\ inches. 



Changes. — Like the Snowflake and Lapland Bunting, this 

 species presents a very different appearance in summer, owing 

 to the abrasion of the light-coloured margins and tips of the 

 feathers. A male shot near Cape Wilson, 10th July 1822, 

 was as follows. 



Male in Summer. — The upper parts wood-brown, the feathers 

 with pale reddish margins ; the lower parts whitish ; the throat 

 pale yellow ; the forehead and a streak over the eye white ; the 

 curved band on the head deep black, as is the lunate patch on 

 the fore-neck ; the auriculars blackish. The tail brownish- 

 black, the middle feathers wood-brown, the outer edges of the 

 lateral feathers white. The quills wood-brown. 



Length to end of tail *J\ inches; bill y'^g ; tarsus |. 



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