SPECIES 8. EMBERIZA GRJlMINEJi, 
BAY-WINGED BUNTING. 
[Plate XXXI. — Fig. 5.] 
Gras'S Finch, Jlrct. Zool. J \ ro . 253. — IjAth. hi, 273. — Turton, 
Syst. p. 565. 
The manners of this bird bear great affinity to those of the 
common Bunting of Britain. It delights in frequenting grass 
and clover fields, perches on the tops of the fences, singing 
from the middle of April to the beginning of July , with a clear 
and pleasant note, in which particular it far excels its Euro- 
pean relation. It is partially a bird of passage here, some leav- 
ing us and others remaining with us during the winter. In the 
month of March I observed them numerous in the lower parts 
of Georgia, where, according to Mr. Abbot, they are only win- 
ter visitants. They frequent the middle of fields more than 
hedges or thickets; run along the ground like a Lark, which 
they also resemble in the great breadth of their wings: they 
are timid birds; and rarely approach the farm house. 
Their nest is built on the ground, in a grass or clover field, 
and formed of old withered leaves and dry grass; and lined with 
hair. The female lays four or five eggs of a grayish white On 
the first week in May I found one of their nests with four 
young, from which circumstance I think it probable that they 
raise two or more broods in the same season. 
This bird measures five inches and three quarters in length, 
and ten inches and a half in extent; the upper parts are cinereous 
brown, mottled with deep brown or black; lesser wing coverts 
bright bay, greater black, edged with very pale brown; wings 
dusky, edged with brown; the exterior primary edged with white; 
tail sub-cuneiform, the outer feather white on the exterior edge. 
