FRINGILLIN^. EMBERIZA. 
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length, rather acute ; the first three quills longest. Tail of 
moderate length, emarginate. 
* Wings rather long, with the second and third quills longest. 
156. 1. Emberiza Americana, Gmel. Black-throated Bun- 
ting. 
Plate CCCLXXXIV. Male and Female. 
Bill very stout ,* tail-feathers acute. Male with the upper part of 
the head, the cheeks, and the hind neck dark ash-grey, faintly streaked 
with dusky ; loral space whitish, a band over the eye, and a patch be- 
low the cheek, yellow ; the fore part of the back greyish-brown, with 
longitudinal streaks of brownish-black, the hind part brownish-grey ; 
the smaller wing-coverts bright chestnut ; chin white, throat black ; 
the lower neck and part of the breast, yellow, the rest of the breast 
and abdomen, white. Female similar to the male, but paler, and with- 
out the black patch on the throat. 
Male^ lOf. 
Breeds abundantly in Texas and all the Western Prairies; less so 
from Virginia to Massachusetts. Rare in Ohio and Kentucky. Mi- 
gratory. 
Black-throated Bunting, Emberiza Americana, WiLS. Amer. Orn. v. i. p. 411. 
Fringilla Americana, Bonap. Syn. p. 107. 
Black-throated Bunting, Nett. Man. v. i. p. 461. 
Black-throated Bunting, Emberiza Americana, Acn. Oim. Biog. v. iv. p. 599. 
157. 2. Emberiza Townsendi, Aud. Townsend’s Bunting. 
Plate CCCC. Fig. 4. Male. 
Bill very stout, with the upper outline considerably convex. Head, 
cheeks, hind neck, sides of the neck, fore part of the breast, and sides 
of the body, deep bluish-grey, the head streaked with black ; back yel- 
lowish-brown, streaked with dusky, the feathers edged with grey, 
rump yellowish-grey; quills and tail-feathers wood-brown, slightly 
edged with paler ; a narrow white line over the eye ; throat white, 
with a narrow band of black on each side ; abdomen and middle part 
of breast greyish- white. 
Male, 5|, 9. 
One specimen (in my possession) procured in Pennsylvania.. 
Townsend’s Bunting, Emberiza Townsendii, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p. 183 ^ v. v. 
p. 90. 
158. 3. Emberiza Grammaca, Say. Lark Bunting. 
Plate CCCXC. Fig. 1. Male. 
Second and third quills longest, first and fourth about equal ; tail 
rather long, rounded. Male with three longitudinal bands of white on 
