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BOURBON BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza borbonica.) 



E. rufo-rubra, alis caudaquejiisco-rubris. 



Rufous-red Bunting, with the wings and tail fuscous-red, 



Emberiza borbonica. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1 . 886. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 



1.418.67. 

 Le Mordore. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 366. 

 Bruant de l'isle de Bourbon. Buff. PI. Enl. 321. f. 2. 

 Bourbon Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 210. 5Q. 



About the size of the Yellow Bunting : in length 

 five inches and a half: beak brown : the whole bird, 

 except the wings and tail, bright rufous-red : wings 

 and tail dusky red ; legs the same, with a yellow 

 tinge. Native of Bourbon. 



