PAINTED BUNTING. 



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webs ; the edges whitish ; forming a stripe of 

 that colour on the wings : quills brown ; the pri- 

 maries edged with white ; the secondaries plain : 

 under tail-coverts white : tail brown ; slightly 

 forked ; two outer feathers with a longitudinal 

 white stripe on the inner w r eb : legs dirty white : 

 female w T ith the crown darker, and the margins of 

 the feathers more hoary than the male, which she 

 resembles in all other respects. 



Found over great part of Siberia and Kamt- 

 chatka, inhabiting the pine forests, and the poplars 

 and willows in the islands of the Irtish, and other 

 rivers : its note is similar to the Reed Bunting. 



PAINTED BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza Ciris.) 



E. capite cceruleo, abdomine fulvo, dorso viridi, pennis mridijuscis. 

 Bunting with a blue head, fulvous abdomen, green back, and 



the quills greenish brown. 

 Emberiza Ciris. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 313. 34. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



i. 885. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 41 6. 6l. 

 Chloris ludoviciana, Papa. Briss. 3. 266. 58. t. 8.f. 3. 

 Le Pape. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 176. 9.— Buff. PI. Enl. I5g. 



China Bullfinch. Albin. 3. 68. 

 Painted Finch. Edwards. 130. and 273. upper fig. 

 Painted Bunting. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 226. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 

 3. 206.54.— Lath. Syn. Sup. 15Q.—Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 201. 8. 



This most beautiful bird is the size of a Hedge 

 Sparrow : beak grey brown : irides hazel : head 



