WHITE-CROWNED, AND S.NOV7 BUNTING. , ^S^ 



XXIV^. B U N T I N G. Gen.. Birds, XLVL ^ 



;Embenza Leucophrys, Forfler. — PM. ?>««/". Ixii, 403, 426. — Latham, \i, 2Q0, ^^i. Whith- 



caowNED, 

 With a red bill : white crown : fides of the head black : be- 

 neath the eyes a black line joining the former : fpace between 

 both white : front, fides of the neck, and breaft, cinereous : back and 

 coverts of the wings of a rufty brown, fpotted with black, crofled 

 'with two lines of white : fcapulars edged with white : primaries 

 brown : tail long, and of the fame color : legs flefh-colored. Length 

 feven inches and a half : Extent nine: Weight three-quarters 0/ 

 an ounce. 



Inhabits the country round Hudfon's Bay, Vifits Severn river in Place. 



June. Feeds on grafs feeds, grubs, infefts, &c. Makes its nefl: at 

 the bottom of willow-trees : lays four or five eggs, of a duflcy 

 color. Appears near Albany Fort in May : breeds there, and retires 

 in September. Its flight ihort and filentj but when it perches, fings 

 -very melodioufly. 



Br. Zool. i. N° i22i— Tawny B. N° iz\.—Edw. 126, 2Z2. SNew> 



Emberiza nivalis, Lin.Syft. 308. — Latham, W, 16. 



Sno-fparf, Faun. Siiec. N° 227. tab. j — Sneekok, vititer fugl. Cimbrls.— 



Snee fngl. Fialiler Nornjegis, Brunnich, N" 245. 

 L'Ortolan de Neige, De Buffsn, iv. 329.— P/. Enl. 497.— Lev. Mtjs.— 



Bl. Mus. 



With a fhort yellow bill, tipt with bkck : crown tawny : 

 neck of the fame color : breaft and belly of a dull yellow, 

 declining into white towards the vent : back and fcapulars black, 

 edged with reddifh brown : the coverts of the tail white on their 

 lower, yellowifh on their upper parts : on the wings is a large bed 

 of white : the other parts black and reddi(h brown : tail a little 



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