OLIVE BUNTING. 



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Chic-moustache : it feeds on grain, and is said to 

 sing very agreeably in the spring. 



OLIVE BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza olivacea.) 



E. olivacea subtus albidior, gula aurantia, fascia pectorali nigri- 

 cante. 



Olive Bunting, beneath whitish, with the throat orange ; band 



on the breast dusky. 

 Emberiza olivacea. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 30p. 6. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 870. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 410. 38. 

 Emberiza dominicensis. Briss. 3. 300. 14. t.f. 5. male. 

 L'Olive. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 363. 

 Olive Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 195. 34. 



The Olive Bunting is very little larger than a 

 Wren, being only three inches and three quarters 

 in length : beak grey brown : head and upper parts 

 of the body olive green : between the beak and eye 

 a yellow spot, reaching over the latter : throat 

 orange : fore-part of the neck, and upper part of 

 the breast, black : the rest of the under parts olive 

 grey : wings edged with yellow : quills brown, with 

 olive-green borders : tail the same : legs grey brown. 

 Female less brilliant in colour ; and without the 

 orange and yellow on the head and throat, and 

 the black on the neck and breast ; beneath grey, 

 with an olive tinge. Found at St. Domingo. 



