BUNTING. 347 



78— PAINTED BUNTING. 



Emberiza Ciris, Lid. Orn. i. 416. Lin. i. 313. Gm. Lin. i. 885. Act. Slock. 1750. 



278. t. 7. 1. Amer. Orn. iii. pi. 24. f. 1. 2. Shaw's Zool. ix. 403. pi. 62. f. 2. 

 Passer Brasiliensis, Gerin. iii. t. 344. f. 2. — male and female. 

 Fringilla Mariposa, Scop.i. No. 222. 

 Fringilla tricolor, Klein, 97. 



Chloris Ludoviciana, Papa, Bris. iii. 200. t. 8. f. 3. Id. Svo. i. 362. 

 Le Pape, Buf. iv. 176. t. 9. PL enl. 159. f. 1, 2. 

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

 China Bulfinch, Alb. iii. pi. 68. 



Painted Finch, Edw. pi. 130. Id. 273.— upper figure. Cat. Car. i. pi. 44. 

 Painted Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. 206. Id. Sup. 159. Id. Sup. ii. 202. Arct. Zool. ii. 



No. 226. Bartr. Trav. p. 289. Nat. Misc. pi. 597. 



SIZE of a Hedge Sparrow ; length five inches. Bill and legs 

 brown ; irides hazel ; head and neck violet ; round the eyes red ; the 

 upper part of the back, and scapulars yellow green ; lower part, 

 rump, and all beneath dull red ; lesser wing coverts violet brown, 

 with a tinge of red ; the greater of a dull greenish colour ; quills 

 brown, the edges of some greenish, of others red; tail brown, the 

 two middle feathers incline to red, and the others margined outwardly 

 with the same. The female is dull green above, and yellow green 

 beneath ; quills brown, fringed with green ; the tail also brown and 

 green mixed. 



This bird varies exceedingly, and said not to get the full plumage 

 till the third year : in the first, both sexes are brown ; the male gains 

 the blue head the second, but the rest of the plumage is blue green ; 

 wings and tail brown, edged with blue green : the female, at that 

 time, inclines greatly to blue, and as they moult twice in a year, it 

 is not wonderful, that scarcely any two birds are quite alike. 



Y t2 



