BAY-WINGED BUNTING. 



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the front to the hind head, pure white, bounded on each side 

 by a stripe of black proceeding from each nostril ; and these 

 again are bordered by a stripe of pure white passing over each 

 eye to the hind head, where they meet ; below this, another 

 narrow stripe of black passes from the posterior angle of the 

 eye, widening as it descends to the hind head ; chin, white ; 

 breast, sides of the neck, and upper parts of the same, very 

 pale ash ; back, streaked laterally with dark rusty brown and 

 pale bluish white ; wings, dusky, edged broadly with brown ; 

 the greater and lesser coverts tipt broadly with white, forming 

 two handsome bands across the wing ; tertials, black, edged 

 with brown and white ; rump and tail-coverts, drab, tipt with 

 a lighter tint ; tail, long, rounded, dusky, and edged broadly 

 with, drab ; belly, white ; vent, pale yellow ochre ; legs and 

 feet, reddish brown ; eye, reddish hazel ; lower eyelid, white. 



The female may easily be distinguished from the male, by the 

 white on the head being less pure, the black also less in extent, 

 and the ash on the breast darker ; she is also smaller in size. 



There is a considerable resemblance between this species 

 and the white-throated sparrow, already described in this 

 work. Yet they rarely associate together ; the latter re- 

 maining in the lower parts of Pennsylvania in great numbers, 

 until the beginning of May, when they retire to the north 

 and to the high inland regions to breed ; the former inhabiting 

 much more northern countries, and though said to be common 

 in Canada, rarely visiting this part of the United States. 



BAY-WINGED BUNTING. (Emberiza graminea.) 



PLATE XXXI.— Fig. 5. 



Grass Finch, Arct. Zool. No. 253.— Lath. iii. 273.— Turton, Syst. i. p. 565. ' 

 ZONOTBICHIA GRAMIJSTEA.—Swawson. 

 Fringilla graminea, Bonap. Synop. p. 108. — Fringilla (Zonotrichia) graminea, 

 North. Zool. ii. p. 254. 



The manners of this bird bear great affinity to those of the 

 common bunting of Britain. It delights in frequenting grass 



