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WILLOW BUNTING. 



GRANIVOPwE. 



Family FRINGILLIDM. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Emberiza. ( Linnceus.) 



WILLOW BUNTING. 



Emberiza aureola. 



Emberiza aureola, 



sibirica, 



selysii, 



dolyclionicus, 



Euspiza aureola, 



Passerina collaris, 



Hypocentor aureola, 



Bruant aureole, 



Kragenammer, 



Yellow-breasted Bunting, 



Pallas et Auct. 



Naumann; Vog., t. 381, 1 & 2. 



Gould; B. of E., pi. 174. 



Lepechin; Nov. Com. Petrop., 15, p. 483 (a). 



Verany. 



Bonaparte. 



Bonaparte. 



Vieillot. 



Cabanis. Brehm. 



Ojf the French. 



Of the Germans. 



Bree: first Edition. 



Specific Characters. — Occiput, back, and a collar round the lower neck 

 rich chesnut brown; cheeks black; the first two primaries of equal length, 

 and longer than the third; the median wing coverts white; an elongated 

 white mark on the inner web of outermost tail feather. Length five inches; 

 carpus to tip three inches; tail two inches and a half; beak from gape 

 two fifths of an inch; tarsus seven tenths of an inch. 



The Willow Bunting is one of those northern species, especially 

 noticed by Pallas, which have a common habitat along the borders 

 of the two continents of Europe and Asia. It ranges from the Ural 

 Mountains to Kamtschatka, and is recorded by Temminck and Deg- 

 land as having been seen during its migration in the Crimea. I do 

 not, however, find any notice of its occurrence there by Dr. Carte 



