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TAWNY BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza glacialis,) 



E. nigra, pennis jlavo^fusco marginatis, gula uropygioque Jlaves- 

 centibus, subtus alba flavo obscura macidata. 



Black Bunting, with the feathers yellow, margined with brown- 

 ish ; throat and rump yellowish ; beneath white, with obscure 

 yellow spots. 



Emberiz:' glacialis. Lath. Ind.. Orn. 1. 3gS. 2. 



Emberiza nivalis /3. Lin. Faun. Suec. 22*J . 



Emberiza mustelina. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 867 • 



Tawny Bunting. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 121. — Lewin. Brit. Birds. 

 2. 72.— Lath. Gen. Syn. 3- 104, 2.— Mont. Brit. Birds. 1. — 

 Mont Sup. — Bewick, Brit, Birds. 1. 150. — Don, Brit. Birds, 

 2. 27- 



The Tawny Bunting, according to Mr. Mon- 

 tagu, has the " beak yellow, with a black point: 

 the top of the head tawny, with a few dark ches- 

 nut spots : neck pale dull yellow, the lower part 

 before becoming of a bright tawny : chin and 

 throat white : back and scapulars black, the fea- 

 thers deeply margined with tawny, giving them 

 a spotted appearance : rump tawny : two or three 

 of the upper tail-coverts white : breast, and all 

 beneath, white : the eight first quills are white 

 at their base; the black part (which is more or less 

 slightly tipped and margined with white), occupies 

 nearly the whole of the two or three first, and 

 running oblique across the others, forms only a 

 black tip to the eighth feather ; from which to the 

 fourteenth are pure white, except a small dusky 



