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FAMILY XV.* — FRIN GILLINiE. FINCHES. 
Genus II. f— EMBERIZA, Linn. BUNTING. 
SHATTUCK’S BUNTING. 
Emberiza Shattuckii, Aud. 
PLATE CCCCXOm.— Male. 
This handsome little species is found quite abundant throughout the 
country bordering oq the Upper Missouri. It inhabits with particular 
partiality the small valleys found here and there along the numerous 
ravines running from the interior, and between such hills as I have already 
mentioned. Its usual demeanour resembles much that of the Chipping 
Bunting, Emberiza socialis of Wilson, and like it, it spends much of its 
time in singing its monotonous ditties ; whilst its mate is engaged in the 
pleasing task of incubation. When approached it will dive and conceal itself 
either amid the low bushes around, or will seek a large cluster or patch of 
wild roses, so abundant in that section of country, and the fragrance of which 
will reach the olfactory nerve of the traveller or gunner for many paces. 
The nest of the Shattuck Bunting is usually placed on a small horizontal 
branch, seven or eight feet from the ground ; and I believe is occasionally 
placed in the broken and hollow branches of trees. The eggs, four or five 
in number, are blue, spotted with reddish-brown toward the large end, and 
placed in a nest so slightly formed of slender grasses, circularly lined with 
horse or cattle hair, as to resemble as much as possible the nest of the 
species to which it is allied. 
I have great pleasure in naming this species after my worthy young friend 
George C. Shattuck, Esq., M.D., of Boston, one of the amiable gentlemen 
who accompanied me on my voyage to the coast of Labrador. 
Shattuck’s Bunting, Emberiza Shattuckii, Aud. 
5t6> 8tV* 
* See vol. iii. p. 49. 
f Ibid. p. 68. 
