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in a very strong cage among their poultry, by 

 which means the fowls are sooner advised of the 

 approach of a Hawk, or other bird of prey: from 

 which it is called Chic de Mitilene. 



BARRED TAIL BUNTING. 



(Emberiza fasciata.) 



^L.Jiisco neIndosa f subtus alba, naribus gula genhque JtiscicuUs 



plumosis, remigibus caudaque fuscis saturatiorejasciatis. 

 Brown clouded Bunting, beneath white, with the nostrils, throat, 



and cheeks, tufted with feathers ; quills and tail fuscous, with 



darker bands. 

 Emberiza fusca. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 878. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



408. 29. 

 Barred tail Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 187« 24. 



This bird is the size of a common Bunting : 

 beak flesh-coloured : nostrils tufted ; cheeks, and 

 beneath the beak, the same : head pale brown : 

 back, wings, and breast, the same, but spotted 

 with darker brown : quills and tail brown, with 

 dark brown bars : belly white : legs rose-coloured : 

 hind claw long, barely curved. Inhabits China. 



