330 BUNTING. 



forehead, cheeks, and throat fine blue, gradually changing to rufous 

 towards the breast, which, with the belly, sides, and thighs, are of 

 this last colour, but the middle of the belly is red ; the quills brown, 

 edged with green ; tail brown, except the two middle feathers, which 

 are green, and all of them fringed with red ; legs grey. 



Inhabits Java, and seems to have great affinity to the last. 



52.— GREEN BUNTING. 



Emberiza viridis, Ind. Orn.\. 417. Gm. Lin.'t. 886. Shaw's Zool.'w. 409. 

 Chloris Indica minor, Bris. iii. 197. Id. 8vo. i. 361. 

 Le Pavement bleu, Buf. iv. 181. 

 Green Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. 209. 



SIZE of the Greenfinch. Bill greenish brown; plumage on the 

 upper parts green, on the under white; quills and tail blue, with 

 white shafts ; legs black. 



Inhabits the East Indies. One, greatly similar, among some 

 Chinese drawings, had the bill black ; plumage above green ; chin 

 and rump the same, but very pale ; under parts dusky white ; legs 

 dusky: this bird was only three inches and a half in length. In 

 another set of drawings, the throat and vent were yellow ; the rump 

 greenish ; breast and belly white. 



53— BOURBON BUNTING. 



Emberiza Borbonica, Ind. Orn.i. 418. Gm. Lin. i. SS6. Shai^s Zool.'ix. 416. 



Le Mordore, Buf. iv. 366. 



Bruant de l'Isle de Bourbon, P/. -en/. 321. 2. 



Bourbon Bunting-, Gen. Syn. iii. 210. 



SIZE of a Yellow-hammer; length five inches and a half. The 

 bill brown ; whole plumage of a high rufous red-colour, except the 

 wings and tail, which are dusky red ; legs the same, tinged with 

 yellow. — Inhabits the Isle of Bourbon. 



