402 YELLOW-BREASTED BUNTING. 



fully spotted with rust : middle of the belly white : 

 middle feathers of the tail brown ; exterior white, 

 each feather truncated ojbliquely." 



This bird is said to keep very close to the 

 ground, seldom rising more than a foot from it : 

 it is an inhabitant of North America, and frequents 

 the Red Cedars. 



YELLOW-BREASTED BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza aureola. ) 



E. rufra subtus flam, fascia pectorali transversa Jerruginea t ver- 



tice genis gulaque nigris. 

 Rufous Bunting, beneath yellow, with a transverse ferruginous 



band on the breast ; crown, cheeks, and throat black. 

 Emberiza aureola. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 875. — Lath, Ind. Orn. 



1.414. 53. 



Yellow-breasted Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 201. 46. — Pen. 

 Brit. Zool. 2. 366. a. 



The Yellow-breasted Bunting has a pale trans- 

 parent beak, the edge of which is blackish : fore- 

 head and crown blackish, the latter palest : back 

 of the head, nape, and between the wings, rufous ; 

 the feathers edged with grey at their tips : back 

 and rump the same, but more hoary, and some 

 of the shafts spotted with black : cheeks and 

 throat black : breast and belly yellow ; with a 

 ferruginous crescent across the latter : scapulars 

 white : secondary wing-coverts rufous on the outer 



