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BLACK B. 
DESCRIPTION» 
Piace. 
ORTOLAN B. 
DEscriPTion. 
Be IN ae a Ge 
Emberiza hyemalis, Zin. Syf.i. p. 308. 2. 
L’Ortolan de neige noir, Brif- orn. ili. p. 289. C. 
L’Ortolan Jacobin, Buf. oi/. iv. pe 335. 
Snow Bird, Cate/o. Car. i. pl. 36.—Kaln. Trav. ii. p. 51. 81-—Aré. Zool. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 
I LL white: head, throat, neck, back, fcapulars, rump, and 
upper tail coverts, black, inclining in fome parts to lead- 
colour: from the breaft to the vent white: quills and tail black : 
legs grey. 
Thofe in the Briti/h and Leverian Mufeums have the tip of the 
bill black : the fore part of the neck lead-coloured, and the two 
outer tail feathers with ferruginous margins. 
Seen in Virginia and Carolina in winter only, chiefly in fnowy 
weather: called by fome the Chuck Bird. 
Emberiza hortulana, Liz. Syf.i. p. 309-4. — Faun. Suec. 229. — Frifch. 
pl. 5.—Muller, N° 253. 
L?Ortolan, Brif. orn. iii. p. 269. 4. — Buf. oif. iv. p. 305. pl. 14. — Pl. enl. 
247. fo 1.—Olin. uc. p. 22. 
Hortulane, Raii. Syz. p. 94. 6.—Will. orn. p. 270. pl. 40. 
Ortolan, Aléiz. ili. pl. 50.—Ara. Zool. 
Lev. Muf. 
OMEWHAT lefs than the Yellow-hammer: length fix 
inches and a quarter. Bill yellowifh: the head and neck are 
cinereous olive: round the eyes yellowifh: throat the fame, bor- 
dered on each fide with a cinereous line under the jaw: back, and 
fcapulars, brownifh chefnut, mixed with black in the middle of 
the feathers, but inclines moft to chefnut towards the rump: the 
under parts very pale rufous, lighteft towards the vent: wing fea- 
thers 
