G5 



GRANIVOEtE. 



Family FRINGILLIDJE. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Emberiza. ( 'Linnceus.J 



LITTLE BUNTING. 



Emberiza pusilla. 



Emberiza pusilla, Pallas; Voy., 1776, Zoog., 42, No. 206. 



Gmelln; Syst., 1788. 



Schlegel; Kevue, 1844. 



Degland; Ornith. Eur., 1849. 



Bonapaste; Consp. Avium Eur., 1850. 

 Bruant Nain, Of the Ekench. 



Ztoergammer, Oe the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Occiput, cheeks, and part of throat fer 

 ruginous, with two distinct, deep black, irregular bands, extending 

 from the base of the upper mandible over each eye, to the 

 nape, where they turn round, and in some specimens form a 

 more or less complete collar round the neck, mingled with white 

 or fawn-colour; throat more or less white, mingled with the 

 ferruginous colour of the occiput and cheeks; base of the inner 

 web of most external tail feather white, that of the second the 

 same, but only half as wide; first and third primaries of nearly 

 equal length, the second the longest in the wing. Length of 

 male five inches and three-tenths; carpus to tip three inches; 

 tail two inches and a half; beak two-fifths of an inch; tarsus 

 seven-tenths of an inch. Female a little less. 



The Little Bunting is the last of the closely-allied 



