FIXE BUXTTXG. 
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The Pine Bunting is a cheerful lively bird, with a 
note similar to the other members of its family. In 
its habits, it resembles the Heed Bunting. It feeds on 
insects, and seeds of some of the mountain plants, and 
probably also on those of the reed and other water 
plants; in winter on oats, millet, etc. Of its nidification 
I am sorry to say I can add nothing. 
The male has the top of the head white, bordered 
with black, which is also the colour of the forehead; 
a band extending from the base of the beak beneath 
the eyes, a demi collar round the front of the neck, 
the centre of the abdomen, the distal half of each 
lateral tail feather, and under wing and tail coverts, 
white. Scapularies and upper wing coverts chesnut 
brown, with longitudinal patches of black; rump russet; 
tail above dark broAvn. Primaries dark brown, edged 
externally with white; tertials dark brown, deeply bor- 
dered Avith russet ; cheeks and throat deep chesnut ; 
crop and flanks mottled Avith same colour of a lighter 
tint; wings and tail below broAAm; beak brown above, 
yelloAvish beneath; tarsi yellow; iris brown. 
In the female, according to Degland, the Avhite 
mark on the top of the head is only slightly indicated; 
there is no russet on the thi*oat; the upper parts are 
of a broAvn russet, inferior Avhitish; wings and tail as 
in the male. 
The young male is thus described by Prince Charles 
Bonaparte, in the “Hevue et Magasin de Zoologie” for 
April, 1857 : — “The top of the head, the auditory 
region, and the shoulders, bright bay; the feathers on 
the top of the head blackish in the middle, and the 
ears are edged with the same colour in an undecided 
manner. The large superciliary feathers and the 
moustache, Avhich are spread out at the end, and so 
VOT.. ITT. 
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