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LORRAIN BUNTING. 

 (Emberlza Lotharingica.) 



E. nigro metadata, supra rufa, subtus cinerascens, strigaper oculos 



maxillceque hiferioris nigra, rectricibus lateralibus albo nigro- 



que variis. 

 Black spotted Bunting, above rufous, beneath cinerascent, with 



a black stripe through the eyes, and another at the base of 



the lower mandible ; outer tail-feathers varied with black and 



white. 

 Emberiza Lotharingica. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 882. — Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 1. 404. 17- 

 Ortolan de Lorraine. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 323. — Buff. PI. 



Enl. 5\l.f. 1. male. 

 Ortolan de passage. Buff. PI. Enl. bjl.f. 2. female. 

 Lorrain Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 176. 12. 



In length near seven inches : beak brownish : 

 upper parts of the head, neck, and body, rufous, 

 striped with black : sides of the head pale : through 

 the eye a streak of black ; with another of the same 

 from the base of the lower mandible round the 

 chin, and rising to the ears : throat and breast pale 

 ash-colour, sprinkled with black : breast, belly, and 

 vent, deep rufous : lesser wing- coverts plain ash- 

 colour 5 the others black and rufous mixed : two 

 middle tail-feathers rufous ; the rest black and 

 white, but most white in the outer ones : legs pale 

 reddish brown : female much less : with the tip of 

 the beak black : without the black streaks on the 

 side of the head j but in lieu thereof, has a whitish 

 mark above the eye, and a patch of rufous beneath 



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