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BLACK-HEADED BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza melanocephala.) 



TL.Jlava, dorso rufo, capite collogue superiore nigris, remigibus 



rectricibusquejuscis. 

 Yellow Bunting, with the buck rufous; head, and upper parts 



of the neck, black ; quills and tail-feathers brown. 

 Emberiza melanocephala. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. 873. — Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 1. 412. 46. 

 Black-headed Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 198. 41. 



The Black-headed Bunting is the size of the 

 Yellow Bunting, with the head and upper part of 

 the neck black : throat, breast, belly, thighs, and 

 rump, yellow : sides of the breast and back rufous: 

 quills brown, edged with whitish : tail the same 3 

 but paler. 



