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WHIDAH BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza paradisea.) 



E.Jusca, pectore rubro, rectricibus intermediis quatuor elongatis 

 acuminatis, duabus longissimis, rostro nigro. 



Brown Bunting, with the breast red ; the four middle tail-fea- 

 thers elongated and acuminated, the two outer of which are 

 very long ; beak black. 



Emberiza paradisea. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1.312. IQ. — Gmel. Syst, 

 Nat. 1. 882. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 405. 20. 



Vidua. Briss. 3. 120. 25.t.S.f.\. 



La Veuve a collier d'or. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 155. 6. 

 Grande Veuve d' Angola. Buff. PI. Enl. 194. 

 Red-breasted long -tailed Finch. Edwards. 8(5. 

 Whidah Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 1/8. 15. 



This singular bird is less than the Hedge Spar- 

 row : beak lead-coloured : irides hazel: head, chin, 

 and fore-part of the neck, back, wings, and tail, 

 black: hind-part of the neck pale orange : breast 

 and upper part of the belly the same, but brighter: 

 lower belly and thighs white : vent black : two 

 middle tail-feathers four inches long, placed ver- 

 tically, undulated across, and more glossy than the 

 others, broad, and ending in a long thread ; the next 

 two above thirteen inches in length, very broad in 

 the midd!e $ but narrow and rather pointed at the 

 tips, with a long thread arising about the middle 

 of the shaft ; the rest only two inches and a quarter 

 in length : legs flesh-colour : female wholly of a 

 deep brown ; but does not obtain the full plumage 



