BLACK-THROATED BUNTING. 583 
longitudinally rugous, and of a dark reddish-brown colour. The intes- 
tine, fg h, is 84 inches long, its greatest diameter 2 
twelfths. The rectum, 7 & /, is9 twelfths long ; the 
coeca, j, extremely small, being 14 twelfth long and 
4 twelfth in diameter. 
The trachea, which is 1 inch 10 twelfths long, 
is rather wide, flattened, of uniform diameter, mea- 
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suring 13 inch across, the rings about 55, and ossi- 
fied. The contractor muscles are of moderate 
stength ; the sterno-tracheal slender ; and there are 
four pairs of inferior laryngeal. The bronchi have 
about 15 half rings. 
In its habits, this bird closely resembles”the 
Common or Corn Bunting of Europe, its flight and 
notes being almost the same. Like it, our bird 
alights on walls, fences, detached rocks, or eminen- 
ces of any kind, where it is often seen even in the 
immediate neighbourhood of our cities. Indeed, jI 
have found it in full song perched on the trees that 
ornament the squares of Washington city. In‘the 
form of its bill it also agrees with the Buntings, although that organ si 
proportionally longer and less attenuated toward the end. If, on the 
principle of minute division, it is not admitted into the genus Emberiza, 
it must at least occupy a place in its immediate proximity. 
The plants represented are the Phalaris arundinacea and Antirrhi- 
num Linaria, both common in many parts of the United States, as well 
as in Europe ; the former growing in wet meadows and by the sides of 
rivers, the latter in fields and waste places, a troublesome weed, very 
difficult to be extirpated. 
