Bees NE eles Ivi NJ Gé 
This defcription is taken from the living bird, by Scopoli; but 
from whence it came not mentioned. 
Emberiza fuperne rufa, fubtus flava, fafcid pectorali tran{verfé ferruginea, 
N. C. Petr. xv. p. 485. N° 1. (Aud. Fe Lepechin.) 
Emberiza aureola, Pall. Trav. ii. ps 711. N° 23.—Georgi Reife, p. 174.» 
Yellow-breafted Bunting, 4r@. Zool. 
ILL pale; tranfparent, except at the edge of the upper 
mandible, where it is blackifh: forehead blackith, with a 
fhade of the fame on the crown: hind head, nape, and between 
the wings, rufous; the feathers fringed with grey at the tips: 
back and rump the fame, but more hoary, and fome of the fhafts 
blotched with black: fcapulars white: outer webs of the fecond 
wing coverts rufous; the edges of them whitith, forming a dafh 
of the fame on the wing: quills brown, with white edges: fecon- 
daries brown; within ferruginous: cheeks and throat black: 
breaft and belly yellow; acrofs the breaft a ferruginous crefcent: 
under tail coverts white: tail a little forked, brown; the two 
outer feathers have a longitudinal ftripe of white on the inner 
web: legs dirty white. 
The female has the crown blacker, and the margins of the 
feathers on the back more hoary; otherwife like the male. 
Inhabits the pine forefts of Catharinefburgh. Alfo met with on 
the poplars and willows in the iflands of the Jrtifb, and other 
rivers in Sibiria. Found alfo in Kamt/chatka. 
The fong is much like that of the Reed Sparrow. 
Vor. Il. Dd Aoonalafhka 
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46, 
YELLOW. 
BREASTED B. 
Description. 
FEMALE. 
PLACE. 
