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PASSERINE BUNTING* 

 (Emberiza passerina.) 



E. grisco^fusca, subtus cinerascens, vertice medio jugulo tectrici- 

 busque nigrisrectricibus y duabus extimis albo nigroque dimidiatis. 



Grey-brown Bunting, beneath ash-coloured; crown of the head, 

 middle of the jugulum, and tail-coverts black ; two outer tail- 

 feathers half black and white. 



Emberiza passerina. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 871. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 1.403.14. 



Passerine Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 196. 35. 



This bird inhabits Russia, frequenting the Jaick 

 in autumn, and in the winter migrating in pairs to 

 the south : it is very tame ; and is the size of the 

 Reed Sparrow : head dull ferruginous ash-colour ; 

 with some of the feathers on the crown black : on 

 each side of the chin a white line, and behind the 

 eye a pale streak : middle of each feather on the 

 back black, with the edges grey brown : wings 

 ferruginous with yellowish margins : fore-part of 

 the neck black, the feathers edged with paler co- 

 lour ; the rest of the under parts cinereous white, 

 blotched on the sides with pale ferruginous : tail 

 slightly forked, black ; the two middle feathers 

 edged with ferruginous ; the two outer ones mark- 

 ed obliquely with black and white, the most outer 

 nearly to the base, and the other about half way : 

 shafts black in both : legs pale brown. 



