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BLACK-CROWNED BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza atricapilla.) 



E. rufo-fusca, subtus cinerea, gula alba, vertice luteo, sincipite 



strigaque per oculos ad nuckam nigris. 

 Rufous-brown Bunting, beneath ash-coloured, with the throat 



white ; crown yellow ; sinciput, and stripe through the eyes 



towards the nape, black. 

 Emberiza atricapilla. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 875. — Lath, Ind. Orn. 



1. 415. 57. 



Black-crowned Bunting. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 230. — Lath. Gen. 

 Syn. 3. 202. 49. t. 45. 



Length about seven inches : beak short, dusky : 

 crown of the head yellow : forehead black ; with a 

 stripe of that colour passing from thence through 

 the eye to the hind head, which is cinereous : body 

 above reddish brown, the shafts of each feather 

 darkest ; wing-coverts and quills with paler edges : 

 chin dirty white : throat and breast cinereous ; the 

 upper part of the latter black : belly the same, with 

 yellowish buff stripe down the middle : tail plain 

 brown, even at the end : legs brown : claws dusky. 

 Female without the yellow spot on the crown. In- 

 habits the Sandwich Islands and Nootka Sound. 



