you Ni or NM) |G. 
white: throat, breaft, and belly, afh-colour, marked down the 
middle of the Jaft with pale yellowifh buff-colour: tail even at 
the end, and of a plain brown: legs brown: claws dufky. 
Inhabits the Sandwich Iflands. 1 have feen alfo a bird not 
very unlike that, which was met with in Nootka Sound. This 
had the crown black, and a fpot of yellow on the fore part only: 
a double line of white on the wings: the belly in that bird was 
alfo white. I take this to differ only in fex from the firft. 
Alia Emberize fpecies, &c. N. C. Petr. xv. p. 486. pl. 25. f. 2. (7. Le- 
pechiz) the male. 
Emberiza leucocephala, N.C. Petr. xv. p. 480. pl. 23. f. 3. ( Gmelin.) 
Emberiza pithyornus, Pall, Trav. vol. il. p. 710. 
I ZE of the Yellow-hammer. Bill dirty white: head faf- 
ciated; firft a broadifh hoary ftreak down the middle, on each 
fide a black one meeting at the hind head ; below this the nape is 
hoary; through the eyes a rufous ftripe; below it, on the 
cheeks, a triangular fpot of white, and on the temples one of 
black of the fame figure: fides of the neck, and throat, ferrugi- 
nous: on the breaft a triangular large fpot: middle of the belly 
hoary: fides rufous: vent whitifh: back, and rump, rufous ; the 
fhafts of the firft dufky: the coverts, and fecond quills, brown, 
edged with rufous: greater quills, and tail, blackifh, with whitifh 
margins, the laft forked, and the two outer feathers marked with 
white from the middle to the tip on the inner web: legs dirty 
avhite: claws dufky. 
_ The female is wholly varied with grey and pale rufous: the 
Dd 2 Shafts 
903 
Prace, 
PINE 8. 
DeEscREPTIONe 
Yewae, 
