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Alia Emberiza Species, Act. Petr.xv. 4S6. t.25. f. 2. 

 Emberiza peregrina, sive Cirlus exoticus, Gerin. iii. t. 351. 1 ? 

 Pine Bunting, Gen. Si/n. iii. 203. 

 MALE. 



ABOUT the size of the Yellow-hammer. Bill and legs dirty 

 white ; head banded ; first a broadish hoary streak down the middle, 

 on each side a black one meeting behind ; below this the nape is 

 hoary ; through the eye a rufous stripe ; below it, on the cheeks, a 

 triangular spot of white, and on the temples one of black, the same 

 in shape ; sides of the neck and throat ferruginous ; on the breast a 

 large triangular spot ; middle of the belly hoary ; sides rufous ; vent 

 whitish ; back and rump rufous, the shafts of the feathers of the first 

 dusky; coverts and second quills brown, edged with rufous; greater 

 quills and tail blackish, the feathers margined with white ; the last 

 a little forked, and the two outer feathers white from the middle to 

 the tip, on the inner web. The female grey and pale rufous mixed ; 

 shafts of the feathers dusky ; beneath inclined to rufous ; bottom of 

 the belly dirty white ; the rest as in the male. 



This was met with at Astrachan, by Gmelin, also on the shores 

 of the River Don, among the reeds ; and it seems most probable to 

 be the same bird as that mentioned by Dr. Pallas, but in the descrip- 

 tion of the last the black patch on the temples is not mentioned : it 

 is also said to be found in the pine forests of Siberia, even the most 

 northern, and has the note of a Reed Sparrow ; but not seen in 

 Russia, though sometimes found in winter about the Caspian Sea. 



41.*— DALMATIC BUNTING. 



F ring-ilia Dalmatica, Ind. Orn. i. 437. G?n. Lin. i. 920. Shaw's Zool. ix. 437. 

 Passer Sclavonicus, Bris. iii. 94. Id. Svo. i. 333. 



Illyricus, Rail, 87. Will. 183. Gerin. iii. t. 343. 1. 



Emberiza Pithyornus, Tern. Man. Ed. u. 311. 

 Dalmatic Sparrow, Gen. Syn. iii. 256. Will. Engl. 250. 

 FEMALE. 



LARGER than the House Sparrow. Bill whitish ; the plumage 

 above reddish, beneath whitish : tail forked ; legs pale yellow. 



