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for three years : in the winter the male resembles 

 the young female. 



This is common at Angola, Whidah, and other 

 parts of Africa : it is often brought over to Europe, 

 where it will live many years, and is a lively active 

 little bird : it moults twice a year ; and the male 

 is without the long tail-feathers at least six months 

 out of the twelve, as it first loses them about No- 

 vember, and in the spring they begin to re-appear, 

 but are not perfectly formed till June. 



LONG-TAILED BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza Vidua.) 



E. nigricans, subtus albida, rectricibus intermediis quatuor elonga- 



tis acuminatisy duabus longissimis, rostro rubro. 

 Dusky Bunting, beneath whitish; the four middle tail-feathers 



elongated and acuminated, of which the two interior are 



longest ; beak red. 

 Emberiza vidua. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1 . 312. 21. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 883. — Lath. hid. Orn, 1. 405. 22. 

 Vidua major. Briss. 3. 127. 27. — Buff. Hist, Nat. Ois. 4. 162. 

 Long-tailed Bunting. Lath, Gen. Syn. 3. 181. 17. 



Found in India and Angola. Beak red : head 

 and all the upper parts of the body greenish black: 

 sides of the head and under parts dirty white ; the 

 black colour reaching on each side the neck like a 

 half collar: wing-coverts with a white band : quills 

 edged with brown : two middle tail-feathers ten 

 inches and a half in length ; the next two nine 



