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BOURBON BUNTING. 

 ( Emberiza borbonica. ) 



E. riifo-rubra, alis caudaque fusco-rubris. . 

 Rufous-red Bunting, with the wings and tail fuscous-red. 

 Emberiza borbonica. GmeU Syst. Nat, i. 886.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 1.418. 67. 



Le Mordore. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 366. 



Bruant de l'isle de Bourbon. Buff. PI. Enl. 321./. 2. 



Bourbon Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 210. 5Q, 



About the size of the Yellow Bunting : in length 

 five inches and a half: beak brown : the whole bird, 

 except the wings and tail, bright rufous-red : wings 

 and tail dusky red ; legs the same, with a yellow 

 tinge. Native of Bourbon. 



