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LOUISIANA BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza ludovicia.) 



E. grisea, subtus pallida, pectore rufo, capite supra arcu nigro. 

 Grey Bunting, beneath paler, with the breast red ; head above 



with a black arch. 

 Emberiza ludovicia. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 310. 10. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 878.— Briss. 3. 278. 6. t. 14./. 3.— Lath. Ind. Orn.l. 



404. 18. 



L'Ortolan de la Louisiane. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 325.— Buff. 



PI. Enl. 158./. 1. 

 Louisiane Bunting. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 227. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 



3. 177. 13. 



Size of E. citrinella : length above five inches : 

 beak rufous, spotted with black : head, throat, and 

 fore-part of the neck, pale rufous : the top of the 

 head with an irregular semicircular black streak : 

 beneath the eye a streak, and several lesser mark- 

 ings of black : body above rufous sprinkled with 

 black : greater wing-coverts and quills black, with 

 rufous edges : lower part of the back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts, black : tail cuneiform, and 

 black : belly, thighs, and tail beneath, reddish 

 white : breast and sides rufous : legs ash-colour. 

 Native of Louisiana. 



