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PSITTACEOUS BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza psittacea.) 



^..cinereo^fusca, alis fulvis, rectricibus duabus intermediis longis* 

 simis. 



Cinereous-brown Bunting, with the wings rufous, and the two 



middle tail-feathers very long. 

 Emberiza psittacea. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 312. 18. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1.882. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1.404. 19. 

 Linaria brasiliensis longicauda. Briss. 3. 147. 35. 

 La Veuve eteinte. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 168. 

 Psittaceous Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 1?8. 14. 



The Psittaceous Bunting is the size of the 

 House Sparrow : length about six inches : base 

 of the beak surrounded with pale red : prevailing 

 colour of the plumage dull greyish ash : wings pale 

 red and yellow mixed: tail similar in colour to 

 the body : two middle feathers nearly three times 

 the length of the body, and tipped with chesnut, 

 Native of Brasil. 



