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NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



After the autumn moult the male resembles the female. The darker hue of the breeding 

 dress is produced by the pale margins of the plumage dropping off. 









Dimensions 



















Of the male. 













Length total 

 ,, of tail 

 „ of folded wing 

 „ of bill above . 



Inch. 



. 6 



2 

 . 3 



. 



Lin. 

 8 

 9 

 9 

 6 



Length of bill from rictus 

 „ of tarsus 

 „ of middle toe 



Inch. 







. 







Lin. 



ci 



10 



7 



Length of middle nail 

 „ of hind toe . 

 ,, of its nail 



Inch. 

 . 

 . 

 . 



Lin. 



4* 

 5 



Several males, killed at Carlton, were about half an inch shorter than the preceding. 



[67.] 



3. Emberiza (Plectrophanes) picta. (Swainson.) Painted 



Bunding. 



Genus, Emberiza, Linn. Sub-genus, Plectrophanes, Meyer. 



Ch. Sp. Emberiza (Plectrophanes) picta, capite nigro, linea superciliari et macula nuchas auricularibusque et 



tectricibus alarum intermediis albis, corpore subtus et torque ochreis. 

 Sp. Ch. Painted Buntling, head black ; a line passing over the eye, a small spot on the nape, another on the 



ears, and a large patch on the wing, white ; collar and the whole under plumage brownish buff- yellow. 



Plate xlix. 



This species was observed associating- with the Lapland Buntlings on the 

 banks of the Saskatchewan, but no information was received respecting its 

 breeding quarters. Only one specimen was obtained. 



DESCRIPTION 

 Of a specimen, killed at Carlton House, April, 1827- 



Colour. — Head and sides velvet-black, with vestiges of a brownish-white fringe, indi- 

 cating the autumnal plumage. Three distinct stripes of pure white on the sides of the head, 

 one bordering the chin, another on the ear, and a third above the eye : a less distinct 

 spot on the middle of the nape. The neck above wood-brown ; the dorsal plumage and 

 lowest rows of wing coverts blackish-brown, broadly edged with light greyish-brown : the 



