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DOMINICAN B. 
Description. 
PEMALE. 
BAN hia ee ON SG 
Emberiza ferena, Liz. Sy/t. i. p. 312+ 20+ 
La petite Veuve, Brif. orn. iii. p. 124. 26. pl. 8. f. 2. 
La Veuve Dominicaine, Buf, oi/. iv. p. 160.—Pl. enl. 8. f. 2 
ATHER lefs than the laft: total length fix inches and 
three quarters. Bill red: upper part of the head black; the 
crown rufous white: the back part of the neck, beneath the 
head, is rufous white, which paffes forwards to join with the un-: 
der parts, all of which, from the chin, and beneath the eyes, are 
alfo rufous white*: the hind part of the neck, and back, are 
black, edged with dirty white: inner wing coverts white; reft of 
the wing black; the quills edged with white: the tail is black; 
the two middle feathers are pointed at the ends, and are more 
than two inches tonger than the others, all of which leffen in. 
length as they are placed outwardly; three of them, next to the: 
middle feathers, have white tips; and the two outer ones are 
white on the infide, and pale rufous without: the legs are 
grey. 
The female is of an uniform brown colour; and the feathers 
of the tail are all of equal lengths, the two.middle ones not being 
longer than the others. 
This fpecies moults twice in the year, hike the laft; and, like 
that, lofes its long tail feathers. 
* The parts defcribed as rufous white by Broz, are white in the Pd. ext.’ 
and in Buffon’s account of the bird. 
Emberiza 
