TOWHE BUNTING 



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ter, and these may have been all birds of the preceding year^ which 

 had not yet received the full color of the eye. 



The Towhe Bunting is eight inches and a half long, and 

 eleven broad; above black, which also descends rounding on the 

 breast, the sides of which are bright bay, spreading along under 

 the wings ; the belly is white, the vent pale rufous ; a spot of white 

 marks the wing just below the coverts, and another a little below 

 that extends obliquely across the primaries ; the tail is long, nearly 

 even at the end; the three exterior feathers white for an inch or 

 so from the tips, the outer one wholly white, the middle ones black ; 

 the bill is black; the legs and feet a dirty flesh color, and strong 

 for scratching up the ground. The female differs in being of a 

 light reddish brown in those parts where the male is black; and 

 in having the bill more of a light horn color. 



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