1164 
PLAcee 
2, 
+TAWNY B. 
DescriIPTION. 
Beomwe. ON a ann: Nv Ge 
eight middle tail feathers, and outermoft one, are white; the 
outermoft but one black :. legs and claws reddith flefh-colour. 
This variety was found in the county of Efex. 
Emberiza nivalis, Fauz. Suec.227. B. 
Great Pied Mountain Finch, Brambling, or Sea Lark, Raii Syn. p. 88. A— 
Will. orn. p. 255. pl. 77- 
Pied Mountain Finch, A/bin. iii. pl. 71? 
Tawny Bunting, Br. Zool. i. N° 121. 
Lev. Muf. 
ENGTH fix inches and three quarters. Bill thort, yel- 
low, point black: crown of the head tawny; forehead 
darkeft: neck the fame, but paler: throat almoft white, chang- 
ing to a dull yellow near the breaft, which, with the under parts, 
is white dafhed with yellowifh marks*: the back and fcapular 
feathers are black, edged with pale reddifh brown: rump, and 
upper tail coverts, half white half yellow: the firft fix quill fea- 
thers dufky, the lower parts of them white; on the feven follow- 
ing ones the white gradually gains on the dufky parts, fo that 
the laft of them is wholly white, except a dufky fpot; the two 
next quills wholly white; the reft of the quills, the baftard wing, 
and fcapulars, are black, edged with pale red: the outer fecon- 
daries the fame colour as the quills, but the reft of them white, 
forming a bed of white on the wing: the four middle tail fea- 
thers are dufky black, fringed with white; the three outer ones 
on each fide white, marked with a dufky fpot on the outer web He 
* This is not conftant, my fpecimens of M. and F. have the under parts 
wholly white. 
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