RED-WINGED BUNTING. 
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and tipt with white, the next tipt and edged for half an inch 
with the same, the rest dusky, edged with pale brown; bill 
dark brown above, paler below; round the eye is a narrow cir- 
cle of white; upper part of the breast yellowish white, thickly 
streaked with pointed spots of black that pass along the sides; 
belly and vent white; legs and feet flesh coloured; third wing 
feather from the body nearly as long as the tip of the wing when 
shut. 
I can perceive little or no difference between the colours and 
markings of the male and female. 
