26.P RICE BUNTING, 



black; exterior edge of the outmofl feathers white ;~ and a large 

 white fpot on the end of the three firft; middle feathers entirely- 

 black. 



Female of a rufty brown : belly white, bounded by dirty yellow: 

 jrides in both fexes red. Length eight inches and a half. 

 Place. Inhabits New 2'ork and Carolina, Has a pretty note. 



2*?. Rice, Maia Femandex, 56. C. ccxix. — Wil. Orn. ^S6.'—Raii Sjfi. AiJt. 



Rice-bird, Hortulanus Carolinenfis, Calefjy, i. 14. — Ed'w. 291. 

 Emberiza oryzivora, Lin. Syft, 3 1 1. — Latham, ii. 2S8, 289. 

 L'Ortolan de la Caroline, BriJJhn, iii. 282. 



L'Agripenne, ou I'Ortolande Riz, De Buffotij'v!. ll~-—PL Eid.^SS, — Lev. Mws» 

 — Bl. Mus. 



With the head, and whole under fide of the body, black : 

 hind part of the neck in fome pale yellow j in others, white t 

 coverts of the wings, and primaries, black; the laft edged with 

 white: part of the fcapulars, leffer coverts of the wings, and rump, 

 white : back black, edged with dull yellow : tail of the fame colors, and 

 each feather fharply pointed : legs red. Length feven inch.es and 

 a quarter. 



Head, upper part of the neck, and back, of the Female, yellowifh 

 brown, fpotted with black : under part of a dull yellow : fides 

 thinly ftreaked with black. The bird defcribed by le Comte de 

 Buffon, under the title of I'Jgripenne de la Louifiane *, feems to 

 be no other than a female of this fpecies, varied by having fome of 

 the fecondary feathers wholly white. 

 Fl^««. ■ Thefe birds inhabit in vaft numbers the ifland of Cuba, where 



they commit great ravages among the early crops of rice, which 

 precede thofe of Carolina. As foon as the crops of that province 

 are to their palate, they quit Cubay and pafs over the fea, in nu- 

 merous flights, direftly north ; and are very often heard in their 

 paffage by failors frequenting that courfe. Their appearance is in 



• Uift. d'Oi/.iy. 339^— PI. Enl. 388. fig. 2. 



Sepemheri 



