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circles, the upper one of a lead-coloured blue, the next white, and 

 and the lowest blue; the rest of the body reddish brown, mixed with 

 greenish yellow ; on the breast a denticulated bluish mark, tending 

 towards the belly ; the wing coverts and quills white, mixed with 

 greenish yellow in some places, and with black in others; the eight 

 middle, and the exterior tail feathers white, the outermost but one 

 black ; legs and claws reddish flesh-colour. A single specimen of 

 the last described was found in the county of Essex. 



2— TAWNY BUNTING. 



Emberiza glacialis, Ind. Orn.'u 398. Shaw's Zool.ix. 344. 



— mustelina, Gm. Lin. i. p. 867. 



— — nivalis, Faun.suec. No. 227. B. 



Miliaria avis, an Fringillae montanse species, Gerin. iv. t. 364. 1. 

 Montifringilla calcaribus Alaudae major, Rail, p. 88. A. Will. 187. t. 77. 

 Passer domesticus naturae lusus, Gerin. iii. t. 340. 1 ? 

 Great Pied Mountain Finch, Alb. iii. pi. 71 ? Will. Engl. 255. pi. 77. 

 Tawny Bunting, Gen. Syn.\n. 164. Br. Zool. i. No. 121. Id.fol. 112. f. 6. Bewick, 

 i. pi. p. 150. Lewin, Birds,u. pi. 72. Wale. ii. pi. 211. Donov. Birds, ii. pl.27. 



LENGTH seven inches ; weight about six drams. Bill yellow, 

 point black ; crown and neck tawny, the latter more pale ; under 

 parts of the body white, tinged with yellow on the breast, dashed, 

 more or less, with yellowish marks ; back and scapulars black, edged 

 with pale reddish brown ; rump and upper tail coverts half white, 

 half yellow; the first six quills are dusky, base white; on the seven 

 following the white gains gradually on the dusky parts, so that the 

 last is wholly white, except a spot of dusky; the two next wholly 

 white ; the rest, bastard wing, and scapulars black, edged with pale 

 red ; the outer secondaries like the quills, but the rest white, forming 

 a bed of white on the wing ; four middle tail feathers dusky black, 

 fringed with white ; the three outer white, with a dusky spot on the 

 outer web, but the next, on both webs, white at the tip ; legs black, 

 hind claw somewhat longer than the middle one. 



