BUNTING. 321 



spotted with darker brown; belly white; quills and tail brown, 

 barred with deep brown ; legs rose-colour ; hind claw long, and 

 scarcely curved. 



Inhabits China. — Seen in the collection of Chinese drawings. 



35— WEAVER BUNTING. 



Emberiza Textrix, lnd. Om. i, 409. Gm. Lin. i. 877. Skate's Zool. ix. 373. 

 Weaver Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. 193. 



SIZE of the House Sparrow. Bill and legs horn-colour; plu- 

 mage above reddish brown, the middle of the feathers darker ; over 

 each eye, and down the middle of the crown, a streak of yellow ; 

 sides of the head mottled yellow and black; rump, and under parts 

 yellow ; on the middle of the breast a broad black streak, a little 

 divaricated on the sides; tail dusky. 



In winter the yellow colour disappears, and the bird becomes very 

 like a common Sparrow. 



Supposed to inhabit Africa.— One of these in the collection of 

 the late Duchess Dowager of Portland. I have heard of it also in 

 two other places. This bird, like the Weaver Oriole, had the dis- 

 position to interweave silk between the wires of its cage. 



36— CRIMSON BUNTING. 



Emberiza rubra, lnd. Orn. i. 409. Gm. Lin. i. 877. Shaw's Zool. ix. 412. 

 Moineau de L'Isle de France, PL enl. 665. 1. 2. 

 Crimson Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. 194. 



SIZE of the last. Bill dusky; head, breast, rump, upper tail 

 coverts, and thighs, crimson ; hind part of the neck and back 

 blackish and olive mixed, with here and there a clash of crimson ; 



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