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white ; lower part of the back mixed with ferruginous brown ; on 

 the outer part of the wing a patch of white ; the four middle feathers 

 of the tail even, the others rounded ; the outer white on all the outer 

 web, and on the inner to about the middle from the tip ; the third 

 the same, but the white shorter ; the fourth black brown, with a dash 

 of white on the inner web, near the end ; the four middle ones plain 

 dusky black ; length of the middle tail feather three inches and a 

 half, the exterior three inches. The female differs in being brown, 

 where the male is black. 



Inhabits Carolina, and frequents the most shady woods ; seldom 

 seen except in pairs ; comes into New York in spring; has no song, 

 but a kind of twittering noise ; is a restless bird. By some called 

 the American Bulfinch. Is found in Georgia, and called Chew- 

 wink, or Joe wheat. The young male, in colour like the female, but 

 the breast and belly are pale yellow, with brown streaks ; on the ear 

 a curved, dusky streak : the female is rufous brown, but the feathers 

 which fall over the wings, on the shoulders, and sides next the wing, 

 incline more to ferruginous ; beneath from the breast, white. These 

 birds frequent oak woods, swamps, and thickets, seldom more than 

 a pair, or a few together ; but Mr. Abbot informs me, that he once 

 met with a large flock, at the edge of an old field, in Savanna River: 

 they build in the swamps on the ground, among dry leaves, of which 

 also the nest is partly made, with fine grass within : the eggs are 

 reddish white, marked with ferruginous spots, pretty thick all over, 

 but not very deep coloured. 



74— WHITE-CROWNED BUNTING. 



Emberiza leucophrys, Ind. Orn. i. 413. Gm. Lin. i. 874. Ph. Trans. Ixii, p. 403. 426. 



Mill. III. t. 21. C. Amer. Orn. iv. pi. 31. f. 4. Shaw's Zool. ix. 392. 

 Grosbec, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxxii. 

 White-crowned Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. 200. Id. Sup. 159. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 22. 



LENGTH seven inches, weight three quarters of an ounce. Bill 

 and legs flesh-colour; irides deep hazel; lower eyelids white; on 



