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BLUE BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza caerulea.) 



E. ccerulea rufo varia, subtus dilutior, vertice rufo, tectricibus 



alarum majoribus remigibus caudaquejuscis. 

 Blue Bunting varied with rufous ; beneath paler ; crown of the 



head rufous ; greater wing-coverts, quills, and tail, brown. 

 Emberiza caerulea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 876. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 



1.415.59. 

 Emberiza canadensis caerulea. Briss. 3. 298. 12. t. 14./. 2. 

 L'Azuroux. Biiff". Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 369. 

 Blue Bunting. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. lZ\.-—Lath. Gen. Syn, 3. 



205. 52. 



This bird has the beak pale : the crown dull 

 rufous : the upper parts of the neck and body 

 rufous and blue mixed ; under parts the same, 

 but the rufous colour very pale : greater coverts, 

 quills, and tail, brown, with the outer edges ru- 

 fous : legs pale brown. Native of Canada, 



