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HENSLOW'S BUNTING. 



Embehiza HenslowiIj 



PLATE LXX. 



I OBTAINED the bird represented in this plate opposite Cincinnati, in 

 the State of Kentucky, in the year 1820, whilst in the company of Mr 

 Robert Best, then Curator of the Western Museum. It was on the 

 ground, amongst tall grass, and exhibited the usual habits of its tribe. 

 Perceiving it to be different from any which I had seen, I immediately 

 shot it, and the same day made an accurate drawing of it. 



In naming it after the Rev. Professor Henslow of Cambridge, a 

 gentleman so well known to the scientific world, and who has permitted 

 me so to designate it, my object has been to manifest my gratitude for the 

 many kind attentions which he has shewn towards me. Its history and 

 habits are unknown. In appearance it differs so httle from the Buntings, 

 that, for the present, I shall refer it to that genus. 



Emberiza Henslowii. 



Plate LXX. 



Bill short, robust, conical, acute; upper mandible straight in the 

 dorsal outhne, angular, and encroaching a little on the forehead, broader 

 than the lower, acute and inflected on the edges ; lower mandible also in- 

 flected at the edges ; the gap-line deflected at the base. Head rather 

 large, neck short, body full. Feet of ordinary length ; tarsus scutellate 

 before, acute behind ; toes free, scutellate above ; claws slightly arched, 

 compressed, acute, that of the liind toe elongated. 



Plumage compact, slightly glossed. Wings short, curved, the third 

 and fourth quills longest, the secondaries nearly as long as the primaries, 

 when the wing is closed. Tail short, graduated and deeply notched, of 

 tAvelve rather narrow very acute feathers. 



Bill flesh-colour, darker above. Iris dark-brown. Feet flesh-colour. 

 The general colour of the upper parts is pale brown, the central part of 

 the feathers brownish-black, the margins of those of the back bright red. 

 Secondary coverts yellowish-red on the outer webs. Quills dark brown, 



