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BLACK-THROATED BUNTING. 



(Emberiza araericana.) 



E, cinerea fusco striata, superciliis striga sub oculis ubdomineque 



Jlavis, gula alba, jugulo macula nigra. 

 Cinereous Bunting, striated with brownish ; supercilia, and stripe 



beneath the eyes and abdomen, yellow ; throat white ; jugu- 



lum with a black spot. 

 Emberiza americana. Gmel. Syst, Nat. 1. 872.~Lath. Ind. 



Orn. l. 411. 42. 

 Black-throated Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 197 . 37. t. 44. 

 /3. cinereo-fusca subtus albida, f route superciliisque jlams, fascia 



sub oculis lunulaquejrontis nigris, gula Jlava medio macula tri- 



quetra nigra. 



Cinereous brown ; beneath whitish, with the forehead and su- 

 percilia yellow ; band beneath the eyes, and crescent on the 

 forehead, black ; throat yellow, with a triangular black spot 

 in the middle. 



Black-throated Bunting. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 228. 17. — Lath, 

 Syn. Sup. 158. 



This bird has the beak pale brown : the upper 

 parts of the plumage ash-coloured, streaked on the 

 back with brown : supercilia, and streak beneath 

 the eyes, yellow: chin and throat white; with a 

 triangular black spot on the latter : breast and 

 middle of the belly yellow: sides streaked with 

 dusky : greater wing-coverts tawny : quills and 

 tail dusky, with paler edges: legs brown: female 

 without the streaks above and beneath the eyes, 

 and the spot on the throat ; but with a dusky 

 streak beneath the eye, and the space between the 

 latter and the beak white. 



