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VARIED BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza mixta.) 



E. grisea, pectore gulaque cceruleis, abdomine albo. 



Grey Bunting, with the breast and throat blue, and abdomen 



white. 

 Emberiza mixta. Amcen. Acad. 4. 245. 20. — Lath. Ind. Orn c 



1.416. 62. 

 Varied Bunting. Lath. Syyi. Sup. II. 202. 9. 



Size of Fringilla Spinus : beak pale and stout : 

 prevailing colour of the plumage grey ; but mixed 

 so much with blue, that in some lights that colour 

 appears to predominate : the sides of the head, 

 throat, breast, and shoulders, blue-green : belly 

 white, the feathers brown at the base : thighs grey, 

 mixed with blueish : legs pale: inhabits China. 



