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LORRAIN BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza Lotharingica.) 



E. nigro metadata, supra rufa, sublus drier ascens, strigaper oculos 

 maxillceque inferioris nigra, rectricibus lateralibus albo nigra- 

 que variis. 



Black spotted Bunting, above rufous, beneath cinerascent, with 

 a black stripe through the eyes, and another at the base of 

 the lower mandible ; outer tail-feathers varied with black and 

 white. 



Emberiza Lotharingica. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 8S2. — Lath. Lid. 

 Orn. 1. 404. 17- 



Ortolan de Lorraine. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 323. — Buff. PI. 



Enl. 5\l.f. 1. male. 

 Ortolan de passage. Buff. PI. Enl. b*J\.f. 2. female. 

 Lorrain Bunting, hath. Gen. Syn. 3. if 6: 12. 



In length near seven inches : beak brownish : 

 upper parts of the head, neck, and body, rufous, 

 striped with black : sides of the head pale : through 

 the eye a streak of black ; with another of the same 

 from the base of the lower mandible round the 

 chin, and rising to the ears : throat and breast pale 

 ash-colour, sprinkled with black : breast, belly, and 

 vent, deep rufous : lesser wing- coverts plain ash- 

 colour ; the others black and rufous mixed : two 

 middle tail-feathers rufous ; the rest black and 

 white, but most white in the outer ones : legs pale 

 reddish brown : female much less : with the tip of 

 the beak black : without the black streaks on the 

 side of the head ; but in lieu thereof, has a whitish 

 mark above the eye, and a patch of rufous beneath 



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