BeeUr ON ot ge lee NG: 
from thence to the vent deep rufous: leffer wing coverts plain 
afh-colour; the others rufous and black mixed: the two middle 
tail feathers rufous; the others part black and part white; but 
the outer ones have moft white in them: legs pale red brown. 
The female is only five inches and three quarters long. The 
bill black at the point: upper parts much like the male: no 
black ftreaks on the fide of the head; but inftead, a whitith trace 
over the eye, and a patch of rufous beneath it: the under parts 
are white, which paffes backwards a little on each fide of the 
neck, like a half-collar: legs black: the tail, in the figure, feems 
to be quite white beneath, except juft at the tips of the outer 
feathers, which have a dufky ftreak. 
Inhabits Lorrain. 
Emberiza Ludovicia, Liz. Sy/. i. p. 310. 10, 
L’Ortolan de la Louifiane, Bri/- orn. lil. p, 278. 6.—Buf, vif. iv. p. 325. 
—PI. enl. 158. £. 1.—Ar&. Zool, : 
IZE of the Yellow-hammer: length five inches and a 
quarter. Bill rufous, fpotted with black: the head, throat, 
and fore part of the neck, pale rufous: the top of the head 
is furrounded with a wreathed irregular ftreak of black, fomewhat 
dike an horfe-fhoe: beneath the eye is a ftreak, and feveral 
leffer markings of black: the upper parts of the body rufous, 
dafhed with black: the lower part of the back, the rump, and 
upper tail coverts, black: breaft and fides rufous: belly, thighs, 
and under the tail, rufous white: greater wing coverts black, 
with rufous edges: quills the fame: tail a little cuneiform, and 
black: legs afh-colour. : 
Inhabits Louifiana, 
VoL. Il. Aa Emberiza 
Wdled 
FEMALE; 
oP LACE. 
1s 
LOUISIANE B. 
DescriPTion. 
PLAcE. 
