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DOMINICAN BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza serena.) 



E. pileo nigro, vertice rubra i cauda cuneiformi, rectricibus duabus 



intermediis longissimis, pedibus griseis. 

 Bunting with the top of the head black, the crown red, tail 



wedge-shaped, with the two middle feathers very long; feet 



grey. 



Emberiza serena. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 312. 20. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 883. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 405. 21. 

 Vidua minor. Briss. 3. 124. 26. t. &.J] 2. 

 La Veuve dominicaine. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 160. — Buff. 



PI. Enl. 8./. 2. 

 Dominican Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 180. 16. 



Rather less than the Whidah Bunting : beak 

 red : crown of the head rufous white ; upper part 

 black : back of the neck, beneath the head rufous 

 white, which colour joins the white on the under 

 parts of the body ; hind-part of the neck and back 

 black, edged with dirty white : wing-coverts white; 

 the rest of the wing black ; the quills with white 

 edges : tail black, the two middle feathers pointed 

 at the end, and above two inches longer than the 

 others, which get shorter to the most outward, 

 which is shortest of all ; the three next the long 

 feathers tipped with white; and the two outer 

 ones white on the inside, and pale rufous without : 

 legs grey : female of a plain brown ; and the tail- 

 feathers of equal length. Moults twice a year, 

 and the male loses his long feathers. 



