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PINE BUNTING. 



(Emberiza pithyornus.) 



E. riifa, abdomine cano, striga verticis cana, lateribus nigro mar- 



ginata, macula genarum temporum pectorisque alba. 

 Rufous Bunting ; abdomen hoary ; stripe on the crown hoary, 



the sides margined with black ; with a white spot on the cheeks, 



temples, and breast. 

 Emberiza pithyornus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 875. Pall. It. 2. 710. 



22. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 413. 50. 

 Pine Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 203. 50. 



The Pine Bunting is about the size of the Yellow- 

 hammer : beak dirty white : head with a broad 

 streak down the middle of a white colour, sur- 

 rounded on each side with black ; nape below this 

 hoary : through the eyes a rufous stripe : cheeks 

 and temples each with a triangular white spot : 

 sides of the neck and throat rust- coloured : back 

 and rump rufous ; the shafts of the first dusky : 

 wing-coverts and secondaries brown, with rufous 

 edges : primaries blackish, with whitish margins : 

 breast with a large triangular white spot : sides 

 rufous : middle of the belly hoary : vent whitish : 

 tail blackish, with whitish margins, slightly forked ; 

 and the two outer feathers white from the middle 

 to the tip on the inner web : legs dirty white : 

 claws dusky. Female varied with grey and pale 

 rufous : the shafts of the feathers dusky : lower 

 part of the belly dirty white ; the rest as in the 

 male. 



