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nearly uniting as to form almost a circle round the 

 entire cheek, are of a whitish colour, slightly tinted 

 with an isabelle rose; immediately below the beak 

 proceeds, as if to extend itself to the beginning of the 

 chest, a long pyriform band of an elegant orange rose- 

 colour, which is rarely seen in nature, and which is 

 of the same tint as the Anthus riifigularis ; this band 

 is completely surrounded by a black border, which is 

 spread out on the sides of the neck; the upper part 

 of the neck and the rump are of a nearly pure ash- 

 colour; the back is variegated with black, bay-coloured, 

 and whitish spots; the under parts are whitish, with 

 large brownish longitudinal wedge-shaped spots; the 

 lesser and greater wing coverts are, as well as the ter- 

 tiary feathers, black, with reel and white external 

 edges; the primaries, of which the first is about the 

 same size as the fifth, are brown, unicolorous, with a 

 slight edging of white at the tip. The tail is slightly 

 notched; the two middle feathers, short and very 

 pointed, are black along the shaft, and the first is 

 edged with reddish grey, the two following on each 

 side are quite black, and the two external feathers have 

 a large white cuneiform spot, much more extended 

 upon the last feather, of which the very narrow outer 

 plumes are white, and which has ashy brown grey on 

 the shaft, and a large spot on the tip." 



"It is well known that this Emberiza is also the E. 

 passerina, Messerschmitd; E. albida, Blyth; E. leuco- 

 cephala et Dalmatica, Gmelin, and Sclavonica, Degland. 

 It is probably an older species which M. Barthelemy, 

 of Pomerania, has called after me, E. Bonapartii." 



My figure is from a specimen kindly sent me by 

 Mr. Gould. 



It has also been figured by S. G. Gmelin, Nov. Comm. 



