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HEN-SLOW’S BUNTING. 
procured by himself while in company with our mutual friend Edward 
Harris, Esq. This specimen is the finest I have seen, although Dr. Bach- 
man and myself have procured a great number in South Carolina, where 
this species abounds in the latter part of autumn, and where some remain 
during winter. I have found it in great numbers in all the pine barren's 
of the Floridas, in winter, but mostly in sandy or light soil, in woods thinly 
overgrown by tall pines. I never saw this species alight on trees, but on 
the ground, where it spends its time ; it runs with rapidity, passing through 
the grass with the swiftness of a mouse. In the State of New Jersey it is 
found in ploughed fields, and I have no doubt was previously overlooked 
or supposed to be the Yellow-winged Bunting, to which it bears some 
resemblance. It has not been obseiwed farther to the eastward than the 
State just mentioned. Its plumage in spring is more richly coloured than 
in autumn or winter. 
Winters in Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida. Breeds 
from Maryland to New York. Abundant. Accidental in Ohio. 
Henslow’s Bunting! Emberiza Hcnsloivii , Nutt. Man. App., vol. ii. 
Henslow’s Bunting, Emberiza Henslowii, And. Orn. Biog., vol. i.p. 360 ; vol. v. p. 498 
Bill short, robust, conical, acute ; upper mandible straight in the dorsal 
outline, angular, and encroaching a little on the forehead, broader than the 
lower, acute and inflected on the edges ; lower mandible also inflected at 
the edges ; the gap-line deflected at the base. Head rather large, neck 
short, body full. • Feet of ordinary length ; tarsus scutellate before, acute 
be’hind ; toes free, scutellate above ; claws slightly arched, compressed, 
acute, that of the hind toe elongated. 
Plumage compact, slightly glossed. Wings short, curved, the third and 
fourth quills longest, the secondaries nearly as long as the primaries, when 
tke wing is closed. Tail short, graduated and deeply notched, o-f twelve 
rather narrow very acute feathers. 
Bill flesh-colour, darker above. Iris dark-brown. Feet flesh colour. The 
general colour of the upper parts is pale brown, the central part of the 
feathers brownish-black, the margins of those of the back bright red. 
Secondary coverts yellowislnred on the outer webs. Quills dark brown, 
externally margined with light yellowish-brown. Tail feathers dusky, 
margined externally with yellowish-brown. The under parts pale yellow- 
ish-grey, the breast, sides, and throat, spotted with brownish-black. 
Length 5 inches, bill along the ridge ■£, along the gap nearly h ; tarsus §, 
middle toe* jf, hind toe the same. 
