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TOWHE BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza erythropthalma.) 



E. nigra rubro relucens, abdomine rufescente, macula alarum alba. 

 Black Bunting, shining with red, abdomen rufescent, and spot 



on the wings white. 

 Emberiza erythropthalma. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 874. — Lath. hid. 



Orn. 1. 

 Fringilla erythropthalma. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 318.6. 

 Fringilla carolinensis. Briss. 3. 169. 44^ 



Le Pinion noir aux yeux rouges. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 141. 

 Towhe Bunting. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 224. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 



199. 43. 



This species frequents the most shady woods of 

 Carolina : it is known by the name of the American 

 Bullfinch, and is in length eight inches : beak brown : 

 irides red : head, throat, neck, back, wing-coverts, 

 quills, rump, and tail, black ; the quills with whitish 

 edges : breast white in the middle ; the other parts 

 of it, with the belly, sides, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts, dull red: tail slightly forked: legs brown : 

 female entirely brown, except a slight red tinge on 

 the breast. 



This is a very restless bird, and has only a twit- 

 tering note : it generally appears in pairs. 



