BUNTING. 339 



above lead-coloured black ; beneath from the breast white; tail nearly 

 even, but the outer feather rather the longest, and is wholly white ; 

 the next white, but obliquely dusky at the base within ; the third 

 dusky white down the middle, half way to the end, the rest of it, 

 and all the others dusky black; legs brown. 



The female is brown where the male is black ; otherwise alike, 

 but without any white in the third tail feather; the wings reach 

 halfway on the tail. 



Inhabits America, shifting quarters according to the season ; 

 comes into Severn Settlement and Hudson's Bay the beginning of 

 June, and stays a fortnight ; passing into Nova Scotia to breed, and 

 again by Severn Settlement in autumn, on its return to the south. 

 It makes the nest in the corn fields, under clods of dirt and tussocks 

 of grass. Met with also in Georgia, there called Snow Bird, but is 

 not common ; appears there the first week in November ; sometimes 

 seen in Pennsylvania in flocks of thousands : retreats into the woods 

 in April, and about the 20th, departs northward. 



68— BLACK-THROATED BUNTING— Pl. xcii. 



Emberiza Americana, Ind.Orn.i. 411. Gm.Lin.'i. 872. Amer.Orn.'i. pl. 3. f. 2. 



Shaw's Zool. ix. 379. 

 Black-throated Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. 197. pl. 44. 



SIZE of a Yellow Bunting ; length six inches. Bill and legs 

 brown ; irides hazel ; the upper parts of the plumage streaked with 

 brown on the back; over the eye a yellow streak; at the gape a 

 patch of the same ; chin white ; on the throat a large triangular spot 

 of black ; breast and middle of the belly yellow ; sides over the 

 thighs streaked with dusky ; wing coverts tawny ; quills and tail 

 dusky, with pale edges. 



The female is like the male, but without the black spot on the 



throat, or streak above the eye; beneath it a dusky one, in the 



direction of the jaw ; between the bill and eye white ; the belly and 



sides as in the male. — Inhabits America. 



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