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others the Maize Thief: is said to have a fine note,* and now and 

 then kept in a cage for the sake of it; the nest on the ground, made 

 of leaves and coarse grass, within finer; the eggs five in number, 

 bluish, marked with numerous, irregular, blackish brown spots. 



A. — Agripenne, ou Ortolan de la Louisiane, Buf. iv. 339. PL enl. 388. 2. Gen. 

 Syn. iii. 189. Var. A. 



Size of the last. The plumage above olive brown, beneath pale 

 yellow, paler near the vent; rump and upper tail coverts yellow, 

 crossed with fine lines of brown ; greater wing coverts black, edged 

 with white ; quills the same, but those in the middle have a great 

 portion of white ; tail as in the last, the two middle feathers edged 

 with yellow, the others with yellowish white ; bill and legs paler 

 than in the other. 



Found in Louisiana, and is without doubt a Variety of the last 

 described. Mr. Bartram calls the male the Pied Rice Bird, and says 

 that it appears in May, in Pennsylvania, " at the time when the 

 " great yellow Ephemera, called May Fly, and a species of locust, 

 " appear in incredible multitudes, the favourite delicious food of 

 " those birds, when they are sprightly, vociferous, and pleasingly 

 " tuneful." It is his opinion that they change colour with the 

 different seasons, and that at the time when they migrate, there are 

 no females with them, at least not one to ten thousand of the male 

 colour, &c.f Found in Jamaica ; there called Butter Birds. 



63 —YELLOW-FACED BUNTING. 



Emberiza flaveola, Ind. Om. i. 410. Lin: i. 311. Chit. Lin. i. 880. Shaw's Zool. 



ix. 354. 

 La Flaveole, Buf. iv. 3G3. 

 Yellow-faced Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. 195. 



SIZE of a Siskin. Forehead and throat yellow; plumage in 

 general grey. — Native place uncertain. Linnaeus, from whom the 



* Kalm. t Bartr. Trav. p. 295. 



