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coming forwards on each side of the neck like a half collar; across 

 the wing coverts a band of white ; quills fringed with brown ; four 

 of the middle tail feathers are very long; the two interior being ten 

 inches and a half; the next on each side nine inches ; the rest even ; 

 the long ones are wholly black, the others black on the outer webs, 

 and white within ; the two colours obliquely divided, having most 

 white on the outer feathers; legs black, or brownish. 



Inhabits India. Brisson's bird had a second yellowish band 



beneath the white one, which I do not see in a specimen in my 

 collection. 



22— VARIEGATED BUNTING. 



Emberiza principalis, Ind. Orn. 406. Lin. i. 313. Gin. Lin. i. S84. Shaw's Zool. ix. 



420. pi. G2. 

 Vidua Angolensis, Bris. App. p. SO. Id. 8vo.i. 368. 

 La Veuve mouchetee, Bvf. iv. 265. 

 Moineau du Bresil, PI. enl. 291. f. 2.— fem. ? 

 Long-tailed Sparrow, Edw. pi. 270. 

 Variegated Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. 181. 



SIZE of the Whidah Species. Bill red ; plumage above black 

 and rufous mixed, the black occupying the middle of each feather; 

 sides of the head and under parts white ; breast pale rufous; lesser 

 wing coverts white, the greater black, edged with rufous ; quills 

 rufous; the tail consists of twelve feathers; the two middle ones 

 exceed the others by five inches and a half; the next on each side 

 one inch shorter, and all these are deep black ; the others, which are 

 short, and equal in length, are dull brown, margined with paler, 

 and a white spot on the inner web ; legs fiesh-colour. 



Inhabits Angola. — I much doubt whether this and the last are 

 not the same ; having seen a specimen of the former, which was said 

 to come from Angola ; and we know that many other birds inhabit 

 both Asia and Africa. 



