BARRED TAIL BUNTING. 



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in a very strong cage among their poultry, by 

 which means the fowls are sooner advised of the 

 approach of a Hawk, or other bird of prey : from 

 which it is called Chic de Mitilene. 



BARRED TAIL BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza fasciata.) 



E»,fusco nebulosa, subtus alba, naribus gula genisque Jascicidis 

 plumosis, remigibus caudaque jiiscis saturatiore fasciatis. 



Brown clouded Bunting, beneath white, with the nostrils, throat, 

 and cheeks, tufted with feathers ; quills and tail fuscous, with 

 darker bands. 



Emberiza fusca. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 878.— Lath. Ind. Orn* 1. 

 408. 29. 



Barred tail Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 187. 24. 



This bird is the size of a common Bunting: 

 beak flesh-coloured : nostrils tufted ; cheeks, and 

 beneath the beak, the same : head pale brown : 

 back, wings, and breast, the same, but spotted 

 with darker brown : quills and tail brown, with 

 dark brown bars : belly white : legs rose-coloured : 

 hind claw long, barely curved. Inhabits China. 



