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FOOLISH BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza Cia.) 



E. nifescens, capite lineis nigricantibus sparsis, superciliis albis. 

 Reddish Bunting, with the head sprinkled with blackish lines, 



supercilia white. 

 Emberiza Cia. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 310. 11. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



878.— Lath. Ind. Orn, 1. 402. 11. 

 Emberiza fratensis. Briss. 3. 266. 3. 

 Cirlus stultus. Rail. Syn. 94. 5. 



Le Bruant fou, ou de pres. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 351. — 



Buff. PL Enl. 30./. 2. 

 Foolish Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 19 1. 27. 



This has the beak dusky: head ash-coloured, 

 sprinkled with black, with its sides grey : over 

 the eyes a white streak : from the beak passing 

 through the eyes a black one ; from the base of 

 the under jaw is another passing in the direction 

 of the jaw, and bending upwards : upper parts of 

 the body rufous grey, with a blackish spot down 

 the middle of each feather : under parts more or 

 less of a rufous colour : throat almost white : breast 

 inclining to cinereous : quills dusky with whitish 

 edges : tail black ; the two outer feathers beyond 

 the middle white, with black shafts : middle ones 

 brown, with rufous margins. Female with a ci- 

 nereous line on the crown, varied on the edges 

 with black and ferruginous : a white line on the 

 temples, and a black one from the eyes to the 

 base of the jaws: neck in front ash-coloured: 



