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WHITE-CROWNED BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza leucophrys.) 



"E.Jerrugineo^usca, subtus alba, crisso Jlavo, vertice nigro, medio 



vitta superciliisque albis. 

 Ferruginous-brown Bunting, beneath white, vent yellow, crown 



black, with its middle and the supercilia white. 

 Emberiza leucophrys. Phil. Trans. 62. 403. 42(5. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. l. 874.— -Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 413. 4Q. 

 White-crowned Bunting. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 22. — Lath. Gen. 



Syn. 3. 200. 44. — Lath. Sup. 15Q. 



The White-crowned Bunting is in length above 

 seven inches : beak flesh-coloured : crown of the 

 head with a white stripe, reaching nearly to the 

 beak ; on each side of which is a black stripe : 

 supercilia white, the colour running behind, and 

 joining the vertical stripe : neck ash-colour ; palest 

 in front : back rusty brown : wings brown ; the 

 primary quills very pale on their outer edges, on 

 the inner ash-coloured : bastard wing and two 

 bands on the wing white : rump cinereous brown ; 

 the feathers with ash-coloured margins: breast 

 ash-colour : under parts of the body white : thighs 

 and vent yellow : tail even at the end, and brown : 

 legs flesh-colour : female similar to the male. 



This bird constructs its nest in the bottoms of 

 willows, and lays three chocolate-coloured eggs : 

 it feeds on grass seeds and worms ; and is a native 

 of Canada, but migrates in September to the south : 

 when in flight is silent, but when perched has a 

 very melodious song : it is called Cusabatashish in 

 Hudson's Bay. 



