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YELLOW-WINGED BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza chrysoptera.) 



E. riifo-fusca, subtus alba, pectore tectricibusque alarum minori- 



bus Jlavis,jugulo fascia fusca. 

 Reddish-brown Bunting, beneath white, with the breast and 



lesser wing-coverts yellow ; jugulum with a brown band. 

 Emberiza chrysoptera. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 401. 9. 

 Yellow-winged Bunting. Portlock. Voy. 35. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 



II. 199. 1. 



Inhabits the Falkland Isles : about six inches 

 and a half in length : beak brown : sides of the 

 head, chin, and fore-part of the neck, white ; at 

 the lower part of the latter there is a reddish 

 brown collar-like bar : upper parts of the body 

 reddish brown : breast yellowish : belly and vent 

 dusky white : lesser wing-coverts yellowish ; the 

 rest of the wing reddish brown, the feathers with 

 yellowish margins : tail the same, but the two ex- 

 terior feathers on each side yellow : legs yellow : 

 female with the lesser wing- coverts pale ash : sides 

 of the head, chin, and throat, dusky white. 



v. IX. p. 11. 



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