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procured by himself while in company with our mutual friend Edward 

 Harris, Esq. This specimen is the finest I have seen, although Dr. Bach- 

 man and myself have procured a great number in South Carolina, where this 

 species abounds in the latter part of autumn, and where some remain during 

 winter. 1 have found it in great numbers in all the pine barrens of the 

 Floridas, in winter, but mostly in sandy or light soil, in woods thinly over- 

 grown by tall pines. I never saw this species alight on trees, but on the 

 ground, where it spends its time; it runs with rapidity, passing through the 

 grass with the swiftness of a mouse. In the State of New Jersey it is found 

 in ploughed fields, and I have no doubt was previously overlooked or sup- 

 posed to be the Yellow-winged Bunting, to which it bears some resemblance. 

 It has not been observed farther to the eastward than the State just men- 

 tioned. Its plumage in spring is more richly coloured than in autumn or 

 winter. 



Winters in Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida. Breeds 

 from Maryland to New York. Abundant. Accidental in Ohio. 



Henslow's Bunting, Emberiza Henslowii, Nutt. Man. App., vol. ii. p. 



Henslow's Bunting, Emberiza Henslowii, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 360; vol. v. p. 498. 



Bill short, robust, conical, acute; upper mandible straight in the dorsal 

 outline, angular, and encroaching a little on the forehead, broader than the 

 lower, acute and inflected on the edges; lower mandible also inflected at the 

 edges; the gap-line deflected at the base. Head rather large, neck short, 

 body full. Feet of ordinary length; tarsus scutellate before, acute behind; 

 toes free, scutellate above; claws slightly arched, compressed, acute, that of 

 the hind toe elongated. 



Plumage compact, slightly glossed. Wings short, curved, the third and 

 fourth quills longest, the secondaries nearly as long as the primaries, when 

 the wing is closed. Tail short, graduated and deeply notched, of twelve 

 rather narrow very acute feathers. 



Bill flesh-colour, darker above. Iris dark-brown. Feet flesh-colour. The 

 general colour of the upper parts is pale brown, the central part of the 

 feathers brownish-black, the margins of those of the back bright red. 

 Secondary coverts yellowish-red on the outer webs. Quills dark brown, 

 externally margined with light yellowish-brown. Tail-feathers dusky, 

 margined externally with yellowish-brown. The under parts pale yellowish- 

 grey, the breast, sides, and throat, spotted with brownish-black. 



Length 5 inches, bill along the ridge \, along the gap nearly ^; tarsus f, 

 middle toe §, hind toe the same. 



