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BLACK-THROATED BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza americana.) 



E. cinereafusco striata, superciliis ■ striga sub oculis abdomineque 

 Jlavis, gula alba,jugido macula nigra. 



Cinereous Bunting, striated with brownish ; supercilia, and stripe 

 beneath the eyes and abdomen, yellow; throat white ; jugu- 

 lum with a black spot. 



Emberiza americana. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 872.-*- Lath. Ind. 

 Om. 1. 411. 42. 



Black-throated Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 197- 37. t. 44. 



/S. cinereo-fusca subtus albida, fronte superciliisque Jlavis, fascia 

 sub oculis lunulaquefrontis nigris, gulajlava medio macula tri- 

 quetra nigra. 



Cinereous brown ; beneath whitish, with the forehead and su- 

 percilia yellow ; band beneath the eyes, and crescent on the 

 forehead, black ; throat yellow, with a triangular black spot 

 in the middle. 



Black-throated Bunting. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 228. lJ.—Lath, 

 Syn. Sup. 158. 



This bird has the beak pale brown : the upper 

 parts of the plumage ash-coloured, streaked on the 

 back with brown : supercilia, and streak beneath 

 the eyes, yellow : chin and throat white ; with a 

 triangular black spot on the latter : breast and 

 middle of the belly yellow: sides streaked with 

 dusky : greater wing-coverts tawny : quills and 

 tail dusky, with paler edges : legs brown : female 

 without the streaks above and beneath the eyes, 

 and the spot on the throat ; but with a dusky 

 streak beneath the eye, and the space between the 

 latter and the beak white. 



