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BRASILIAN BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza brasiliensis. ) 



E. mrescens Jlavo Juscoque varia, subtus verticeque lutea. 

 Bunting varied with greenish yellow and fuscous ; beneath, and 



with the crown of the head, yellow. 

 Emberiza brasiliensis. Ms. 3. 299. 13. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



872.— Lath Ind. Orn. 1. 412. 43. 

 Le Guirnegat. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 301. 

 Bruant du Bresil. Buff. PI. Enl. 321. f. 1. 

 Brasilian Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 197. 38. 



The size of a House Sparrow : beak and eyes 

 black : crown, throat, neck, and under parts, yel- 

 low: upper parts and tail varied with greenish 

 yellow and brown : legs brown : female very si- 

 milar in appearance to the common Sparrow, being 

 quite plain, and destitute of the rich colours of the 

 male. Inhabits Brasil. The male is said to have 

 an agreeable note; the female only a chirp like 

 the Sparrow. 



