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EMBEEIZA LEITCOCEPHALA. 



(PINE BUNTING.) 



Emberiza leucocephala, S. G. Gmelin, N. Comm. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. xv. p. 480, tab. xxiii. 



fig. 3 (descr. orig.). 

 Emberiza pity ornis, Pallas, Eeise Russ. Reichs, ii. Anhang, p. 710, no. 22 (1773, descr. orig.). 

 Pine Bunting, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1. p. 203 (1782). 

 Emberiza sclavonica, Degl. Orn. Europ. i. p. 253 (1849, ex Briss.). 

 Emberiza albida, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xviii. pt. 2. p. 811 (1849, descr. orig.). 

 Buscarla pityornis, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1857, p. 164. 



Pine Bunting, English ; Bruant a couronne lactee, French ; Fichtenammer, German. 



Mas pileo medio genisque albis : capitis lateribus, gutture toto et colli lateribus castaneis : dorso rufo, nigro 

 striato et brunneo vario : dorso postico et uropygio lsete ferrugineis : gutture imo albo : corpore subtus 

 albido, pectore superiore et hypochondriis lsete ferrugineo variis : alis brunneis, primariis anguste albido, 

 tectricibus alarum et secundariis late ferrugineo marginatis : cauda brunnea, rectricibus mediis late 

 fulvo marginatis j duabis extimis plerumque albis. 



Fern, supra cinerascenti-brunnea, plumis nigro medialiter striatis : uropygio laete ferrugineo : subtus albescens, 

 pectore superiore hypochondriisque rufo tinctis, plumis anguste brunneo striatis. 



Male in summer plumage. Crown of the head white, more or less tinged with greyish brown, and streaked 

 with small dark brown shaft-stripes on some of the feathers ; forehead and sides of the crown as well 

 as a small patch of feathers behind the ear dark brown, slightly tinged with grey ; a broad line from the 

 base of the bill, enclosing the eye and running backwards along the sides of the head, entire throat, 

 cheeks, and sides of the neck rich chestnut ; below the eye, extending from the base of the bill and 

 enclosing the auricular region, a narrow line of white, becoming rather tinged with grey on the sides of 

 the neck, forming a kind of interrupted collar, which meets on the underside of the body below the 

 throat, where it forms a broad jugular patch of white ; back rufous, mottled with dark brown, most of 

 the feathers edged indistinctly with fulvous ; lower portion of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 rich bay, the latter streaked with brown, and faintly margined with fulvous ; wing-coverts bay, dark 

 brown at the base, and narrowly margined with fulvous, the brown predominating on the greater 

 coverts, where also the fulvous edgings are broader ; primary coverts and primaries greyish brown, very 

 narrowly margined with whitish, secondaries darker brown, bordered on the outer web with bay, which 

 in turn is edged with fulvous ; tail dark greyish brown, the two centre feathers tinged with rufous, and 

 edged with fulvous, the two outer feathers white, except at the base and towards the extremity of the 

 outer web, the next feathers similarly coloured, but the brown predominating and extending further up 

 the feather, all the other feathers greyish brown with narrow fulvous edgings ; upper part of the breast 

 and flanks rich bay, clouded with white; centre of the breast, abdomen, and under wing- and tail- 

 coverts pure white ; upper mandible dark horn-brown ; lower mandible yellowish brown ; feet pale 

 yellowish; iris dark brown. Total length 6'6 inches, bill 05, wing 3"65, tail 3 - 2, tarsus - 75. 



Adult Female. Head greyish brown, streaked with black, the stripes taking the form of longitudinal lines ; 



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