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GRANIVOPwE. 



Family FRINGILLIDJE. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Emberiza. (Linnceus.) 



YELLOW-HEADED BUNTING. 



Emberiza aureola. 



Emberiza aureola, 

 " Sibirica, 



" Selysii, 



Euspiza aureola, 

 Easserina collaris, 

 Hypocenter aureola, 

 Eruant aureole, 

 Kragenammer, 



Pallas et Attct. 



EvERSMANN. 



Verany. 

 Bonaparte. 



VlEILLOT. 



Cabanis. Brehm. 

 Of the French. 

 Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters.— Occiput and rump rich chesnut brown; the 

 first two primaries of equal length, and longer than the third; an 

 elongated white mark on the inner web of outermost tail feather. 

 Length five inches ; carpus to tip three inches ; tail two inches and 

 a half; beak from gape two-fifths of an inch; tarsus seven-tenths 

 of an inch. 



The Yellow -breasted Bunting of the Arctic Zoology 

 and Latham is one of those northern species, especially 

 noticed by Pallas, which have a common habitat along 

 the borders of the two continents of Europe and Asia. 

 It ranges from the Ural mountains to Kamtschatka, and 



