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Genus 3. —EMBE RIZ A.— Linnceus. 
Generic Character. —Bill conical, strong, bard, and sharp- 
pointed ; edges of both mandibles inflected, and compressed to¬ 
wards the point; upper mandible narrower and more acute than 
the under one, its roof furnished with a hard bony knob; nos¬ 
trils basal, round, partly hidden by small feathers at the base of 
the bill; toes entirely divided; hallux with a short or produced 
bent claw ; tail forked or slightly rounded. 
Section I_Claws of the hallux short and hooked. 
Emheriza citrinella. — The Yellow Bunting. 
Plate XLVII. fig. 2. 
Back and scapulars yellowish-brown, inclining to olive-green; 
wing-coverts and secondaries blackish-brown, edged with brown¬ 
ish-orange ; quills black, edged with yellow ; rump brown-orange, 
margined with grayish-white; head and upper parts of the 
breast chrome-yellow, varied with olive-green; abdomen and 
under tail-coverts bright yellow; hypochondria streaked with 
brownish-orange ; legs and toes yellow-brown. 
Section II.—Claws of hallux produced, and slightly bent. 
Emheriza paradisea. — The Whidah Bunting. 
Plate XLVII. fig. 1. 
Summer plumage .—Head, throat, back, wings, and tail, black, 
the feathers of the latter two edged with ash-colour; sides of 
the collum and upper wing-coverts orange-chestnut; abdomen 
and crissum cream-white ; bill lead-coloured; irides hazel, with 
a streak of pale fawn-colour over the eye, and another behind 
it; the two middle tail feathers four inches long, an inch and a 
quarter broad, placed horizontally; the two outer tail feathers 
nine inches and a half in length, an inch and an eighth broad ; 
these four tail feathers end in a filamentary prolongation of the 
quills, an inch and a half long, tipped with a feathery web; two 
long flexible black feathers take their rise from the middle of 
the shafts, and reach nearly to the tip of the rectrices; legs and 
feet skin-colour. 
Winter plumage. —Dark wood-brown, with black patches over 
