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LESBIAN BUNTING* 



it : under parts white, with a half collar of that 

 colour embracing the neck : tail white beneath, 

 the tips of the outer feathers excepted, which have 

 a dusky streak. Inhabits Lorrain. 



LESBIAN BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza Lesbia.) 



E. griseo nigroque varia, subtus orbitisque alba, sub oculis albo 



nigroque ter striata, rectricibus lateralibus partim albis. 

 Bunting varied with black and grey ; beneath, and with the 



orbits, white ; beneath the eyes the same, with three black 



striae ; lateral tail-feathers partly white. 

 Emberiza lesbia. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 882. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



404. 16. 



Le Mitilene de Provence. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 3 C 22.—Buf. 



PI. Enl. 656. 2. 

 Lesbian Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 176. 11. 



Similar to the Mustachoe Bunting, but wants 

 the black spot beneath the eye ; having in lieu 

 thereof three narrow black bands, the spaces be- 

 tween which are white ; as is also the space round 

 the eye: breast, rump, and sides, pale brown, 

 without any dusky spots: two middle tail-fea- 

 thers dusky, edged with rufous ; rest white : legs 

 brownish. 



Inhabits Provence, and is very wild, setting up 

 a violent scream on the approach of birds of prey, 

 which circumstance the Greeks are said by Buffon 

 to take advantage of by placing one of these birds 



