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GRANIVORJE. 



Family FBINGILLIDJE. (Bonaparte. J 



Genus Embeejza. (Linnceus.) 



CEETZSCHMAEE'S BUNTING. 



Emberiza ccesia. 



Fmheriza ccesia, Cretzschmaer; in Biippell's Atlas, 



(Vogcl,) pi. 10, B. 

 Temminck, 1835. 

 Keyserling et Blasius; Lie 



Wirbelt: 1840. 

 Sciitnz; Europ. Faun., 1840. 

 Schlegel; Revue, 1844. 

 Degland; 1849. 

 " liortulanus, Blasius ; in Lit. 



Fringillaria ccesia, Bonaparte ; Consp. Av. Eur., 1850. 



Bruant cenclrillard, Of the French. 



Graukopfiger Ammer, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Beak brown above, reddish below; rump 

 russet grey; head, nape, and crop slate grey. First three pri- 

 maries of nearly equal length, and considerably longer than the 

 fourth. Primaries fringed on their outer web with russet grey. 

 Length five inches and three-quarters; carpus to tip three inches 

 and three-tenths; beat two-fifths of an inch; tail three inches; 

 tarsus seven-tenths of an inch. 



Cretzschmaeh's Bunting, so called from the name 

 of its first artist in Ruppell's Atlas of the birds ob- 



