342 BUNTING. 



greenish, yellow, and brown ; legs brown. — The female is more like 

 a Sparrow, and has a note like it. 



Inhabits Brazil; common about Paraguay: the nest on, or near 

 the ground, made of dry grass or straw, and feathers, lined with 

 horsehair : eggs three, whitish, with many brown spots, especially 

 at the large end : the male has an agreeable note. A bird of this 

 Species, or very like it, is found on the Island of Tristan da Cunha* 



72.— MEXICAN BUNTING. 



Emberiza Mexicana, Ind. Orn. i. 412. Gm. Lin. i. S73. Shaiv's Zool. ix. 395. 

 La Therese jaune, Bruant du Mexique, Biif.iv. 361. PI. enl. 386. 1. 

 Mexican Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. 198. 



LENGTH six inches and a half. Bill and legs pale ; head to 

 the crown, sides, throat, and fore part of the neck yellow ; body 

 above brownish, as in the Yellow Bunting; the brown on the sides 

 of the neck tending upwards to the eye, in a point ; the under parts 

 are dirty white, spotted with brown; quills and tail edged with pale 

 brown. — Inhabits Mexico. 



73.— TOWHE BUNTING. 



Emberiza erythropthalma, Ind. Orn. i. 413. Gm. Lin. i. 874. Shaiv's Zool. ix. 414. 

 Fringilla erythropthalma, Lin. i. 318. 

 Fringilla Carolinensis, Bris. iii. 169. Id. 8vo. i. 353. 

 Le Pincon noir aux j r eux rouges, Buf. iv. 141, 



Towhe Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. 199. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 224. Cat. Car. i. pi. 34. 

 Bartr. Trav. p. 289. Amer. Om. pi. x. f. 5 — the egg. Id. vi. pi. 53. f. 5 — fem. 



LENGTH eight inches; breadth eleven. Bill and legs brown ; 

 irides red ; head, neck,|back, wing coverts, and rump, black ; under 

 parts, from the breast, dull red ; the middle of the breast and belly 



* Lin. Trans, xii. p. 496. 



