RED-RUMPED BUNTING. 



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Bancroft speaks of a bird called Kishee Kishee, 

 which is found at Guiana, and appears to belong 

 to this species : he says it is one of the most beau- 

 tiful of the feathered tribe ; and that it is brought 

 by the Accawan Indians, at the rate of two pis- 

 toles a pair, from the inland parts of the country, 

 and that many attempts had been made to convey 

 them alive to Holland, but without success. 



RED-RUMPED BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza quadricolor.) 



E. viridis, capite colloque cceruleis, cauda cum tectricibus abdomi- 

 neque superiore rubris, pectore abdomineque injimo Juscescen- 

 tibus. 



Green Bunting, with the head and neck blue ; tail, its coverts, 

 and the upper part of the abdomen, red ; breast and lower 

 parts of the abdomen brownish. 



Emberiza quadricolor. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 886. — Lath, Ind. 

 Orn. 1. 417.63. 



Le Quadricolor. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 467. 



Gros-bec de Java. Buff. PI. Enl. XOl.f. 2. 



Red-rumped Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 208. 55. 



Less than E. Ciris: length five inches: beak 

 dusky : head and neck blue : breast and lower 

 part of the belly pale brown : back, wings, and 

 tip of the tail, green : upper part, and coverts of 

 the latter, and the middle of the belly, red : legs 

 pale flesh-colour. Inhabits Java. 



