196 
Pace, 
35° 
PASSERINE B. 
Discriprion, 
« FEMALE. 
Prace. 
BOWS ANG: 2s TA MR ING: Ge 
general like the male: it has not the orange yellow on the head 
and throat, nor the black on the fore part of the neck and 
breaft: all the under parts are grey, with a flight mixture of 
olive. 
Inhabits S¢. Domingo. 
Emberiza pafferina, Pallas Trav. vol. i. p. 456. N° 10. 
I Z E of a Reed Sparrow. Head dirty, ferruginous, afh-colour ;: 
fome of the feathers on the crown black: behind the eye a 
pale ftreak, and on each from the chin a white line: back grey 
brown; the middle of each feather black: the fore part of the 
neck black, with the margins of the feathers pale ; the reft of 
the under parts cinereous white, blotched with pale ferruginous 
on the fides: wings, for the moft part, ferruginous, with yel- 
lowifh margins: tail a little forked, black; the two middle 
feathers margined with ferruginous; the two outer ones are 
obliquely black and white, divided longitudinally, the outer fea- 
thers almoft to the bafe, and the taft but one only to the middle, 
but the fhafts are black in both, and dilated towards the tip ; 
legs pale brown. 
The female is like the male, but wants the black head and’ 
chin. 
Inhabits Rufia. Seen in great plenty along the Fazck in au- 
tumn, migrating in pairs to the fouth; is pretty tame; the flefh. 
accounted excellent. 
Emberiza 
