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WHIDAH BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza paradisea.) 



E.Jiisca, pectore rubro, rectricibus intermediis quaticor elongatis 

 acuminatis, duabus longissimis, rostro nigra. 



Brown Bunting, with the breast red ; the four middle tail-fea- 

 thers elongated and acuminated, the two outer of which are 

 very long ; beak black. 



Emberiza paradisea. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1.312. 19. — Gmel. Syst. 

 Nat. 1. 8S2. — Lath. Ind. Oni. 1. 405. 20. 



Vidua. Briss. 3. 120. 25. t. S. f. 1. 



La Veuve a collier d'or. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 155. 6. 



Grande Veuve d' Angola. Buff. PL Enl. 194. 



Red-breasted long -tailed Finch. Edtcards. 8(5. 



Whidah Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 178. 15. 



This singular bird is less than the Hedge Spar- 

 row : beak lead-coloured : irides hazel : head, chin, 

 and fore-part of the neck, back, wings, and tail, 

 black : hind-part of the neck pale orange : breast 

 and upper part of the belly the same, but brighter: 

 lower belly and thighs white : vent black : two 

 middle tail-feathers four inches long, placed ver- 

 tically, undulated across, and more glossy than the 

 others, broad, and ending in a long thread; the next 

 two above thirteen inches in length, very broad in 

 the middle, but narrow and rather pointed at the 

 tips, with a long thread arising about the middle 

 of the shaft ; the rest only two inches and a quarter 

 in length : legs flesh-colour : female wholly of a 

 deep brown ; but does not obtain the full plumage 



