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WINTER BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza hyemalis.) 



E. nigra, ventre albo. 



Black Bunting, with the belly white. 



Emberiza hyemalis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 308, 2. — Gmel Syst. 



Nat. L 868.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 399. 4. 

 Hortulanus nivalis niger. Briss. 3. 289. c. 

 Fringilla Hudsonias. Phil. Trans. 62. 406. 42. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 926. 



L'Ortolan jacobin. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 335. 

 Black Bunting. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 223. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 

 166. 



This bird makes its appearance in Virginia and 

 Carolina in the winter, during severe snowy wea- 

 ther : it is in length about six inches and a half : 

 beak white : the head, throat, neck, back, scapu- 

 lars, rump, and upper tail-coverts, black, with a 

 tinge of lead-colour : quills and tail black : under 

 parts white : legs grey : is sometimes found with 

 the beak tipped with black ; the fore-part of the 

 neck lead-coloured, and the two outer tail-fea- 

 thers margined with ferruginous. 



