PLATE XXVIL 



EMBERIZA NIVALIS? 



Tawny Bunting. 



Passeres. 

 Pill conic, pointed. Noftrils oval, broad, naked. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Bill conic, angular on each fide 5 a hard knob within the upper 

 mandible. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Bill yellow tipt with black. Head and round the Neck tawny. 

 Back brown, marked with black. Legs black. Rump tawny. Tail 

 twelve feathers, rather forked, exteriors white. 

 Emberiza Nivalis Faun. Suec. 117. B. 

 Emberiza Frigida. Lath.. Cat. Englijb Birds, Suppl. 

 Tawny Bunting. Pen. Br. Zoo/. 121. 



Lath. Gen. Syn. III. 164. 

 Great Pied Mountain Finch or Brambling. Will. Orn. 225. 

 L'Ortolan de Neige 3 Hortulanus Nivalis. Brif. av. III. 285. 

 Schnee-ammer (Snow-hammer). Frifch. 1, 6. 



Thefe birds are fometimes met with in the northern parts of Eng- 

 land, but are not common ; three males and one female were fhot in the 

 garden of Mr. Slade, Vauxhall-road, about a fortnight fince. I care- 



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