BLACK-THROATED BUNTING. 53 



Though this species, generally speaking, is migratory, yet 

 they often remain with us in Pennsylvania during the whole 

 winter. They also inhabit the continent of North America, 

 from Hudson's Bay to Georgia ; and have been found by 

 voyagers on the northwest coast of America. They arrive at 

 Hudson's Bay in April, and leave it in September. Mr 

 Hearne, however, informs us, that "the gold-winged wood- 

 pecker is almost the only species of woodpecker that winters 

 near Hudson's Bay." The natives there call it Ou-thee- 

 quan-nor-oiv, from the golden colour of the shafts and lower 

 side of the wings. It has numerous provincial appellations 

 in the different States of the Union, such as " High-hole," from 

 the situation of its nest, and " Hittock," " Yucker," " Pint," 

 " Flicker," by which last it is usually known in Pennsylvania. 

 These names have probably originated from a fancied resem- 

 blance of its notes to the sound of the words ; for one of its 

 most common cries consists of two notes, or syllables, fre- 

 quently repeated, which, by the help of the hearer's imagina- 

 tion, may easily be made to resemble any or all of them. 



BLACK-THPiOATED BUNTING. (Emberiza 

 Americana.) 



PLATE III.— Fig. 2. 



Calandra pratensis, the May-bird, Bartram, p. 291.— Peak's Museum, No. 5952. 

 — Arct. Zool. 228. — Emberiza Americana, Ind. Orn. p. 44. 



EMBERIZA AMEBICAJYA.—Liknmvs.* 

 Fringilla Americana, Bonap. Synop. 107. 



Of this bird I have but little to say. They arrive in Penn- 

 sylvania from the south about the middle of May ; abound 



* America has no birds perfectly typical with the Emberizce of Europe ; 

 the group appears to assume two forms, under modifications, that of E. 

 'miliaria, with the bill of considerable strength, and that of the weaker 

 make, of E. schceniculus. To the former will be allied our present species ; 

 under the latter will rank the small F. socialis, melodia, and palustris, 



