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(JRANIVOK.E. 
Family FRINGILLIBjF. (Bonaparte.) 
Genus Emberiza. ( Linncens.) 
YELLOW-HEADED BUNTING. 
Emberiza aureola. 
Emberiza aureola, 
“ Sihirica, 
Selj/sii, 
Euspiza aureola, 
Passerina collaris, 
lippocenter aureola, 
Pruant aureole, 
Kragenammer, 
Pallas et ArcT. 
Eversmann. 
Verant. 
Bonaparte. 
ViEILLOT. 
Cabanis. Brehm. 
Of the French. 
Of the Gtermans. 
Specijic Characters. — Occiput and rump ricli cliesnut brown; the 
first two primaries of equal length, and longer than the third; 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 Yellow-breasted Bunting of the Arctic Zoology 
and Latliam 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 
