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MEXICAN BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza mexicana.) 



E.fuscesce?is, facie gulaque luteis, corpore subtus sordide albo 



Jiisco maculato. 

 Brownish Bunting, with the face and throat yellow ; body beneath 



dull white, spotted with fuscous. 

 Emberiza mexicana. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1.873. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 



1. 412.44-. 

 La Therese jaune. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 36l. 

 Bruant de Mexique. Buff. PI. Enl. 386./. 1. 

 Mexican Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 198. 39« 



In length six inches and a half: beak pale : front 

 and sides of the head, throat, and fore part of the 

 neck, yellow : upper parts of the body brownish ; 

 the brown on the sides of the neck tending upwards 

 in a point to the eye : under parts dirty white, 

 spotted with brown : quills and tail brownish, with 

 pale brown edges : legs pale. Native of Mexico. 



