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SANDWICH BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza arctica.) 



E.fusca, subtus albida fusco striata, suboculis striga nigra, super** 

 ciliis Jlams. 



Fuscous Bunting, beneath whitish striated with fuscous; beneath 



the eyes a black stripe ; supercilia yellow. 

 Emberiza arctica. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1, 414. 55. 

 Emberiza sandwichensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 875. 

 Unalashka Bunting. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 229. 

 Sandwich Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3.202. 47. 



Inhabits Aoonalashka, and Sandwich sounds: 

 in length six inches : beak dusky : body above 

 brown ; the shaft of each feather darker : from the 

 nostrils to the back of the head a yellow streak ; 

 sides of the head between dusky: body beneath 

 dusky white, sprinkled with brown : middle of the 

 belly plain dusky white : quills dusky brown, the 

 edges palest : tail brown : legs dusky. 



