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Family FBINGILLIDJE. (Bonaparte.) 
Genus Emberiza. ( Linnceus.) 
LITTLE BUNTING. 
Fmberiza pusilla. 
Emheriza pusilla, 
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Bruant Nain, 
Zwergammer, 
Pallas; Voy., 1776, Zoog., 42, No. 206. 
Gmelin; Syst., 1788. 
ScHLEGEL; Eevue, 1844. 
Degland; Ornith. Eur., 1849. 
Bonaparte; Consp. Avium Eur., 1850. 
Of the French. 
Of the Germans, 
Specijic Characters. — Occiput, cheeks, and part of throat fer- 
ruginous, with two distinct, deep black, irregular bands, extending 
from the base of the upper mandible over each eye, to the 
nape, where they turn round, and in some specimens form a 
more or less complete collar round the neck, mingled with white 
or fawn-colour; throat more or less M'hite, mingled with the 
ferruginous colour of the occiput and cheeks; base of the inner 
web of most external tail feather white, that of the second the 
same, but only half as wide; first and third primaries of nearly 
equal length, the second the longest in the wing. Length of 
male five inches and three-tenths; carpus to tip three inches; 
tail two inches and a half; beak two-fifths of an inch; tarsus 
seven-tenths of an inch. Female a little less. 
The Little Bunting E the last of the closely-allied 
