BAY- WINGED BUNTING. 
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belly, white ; vent, pale yellow ochre ; legs and feet, reddish 
brown ; eye, reddish hazel ; lower eyelid, white. 
The female may easily be distinguished from the male, by 
the white on the head being less pure, the black also less in 
extent, and the ash on the breast darker ; she is also smaller 
in size. 
There is a considerable resemblance between this species 
and the White-throated Sparrow, already described in this 
work. Yet they rarely associate together ; the latter remaining 
in the lower parts of Pennsylvania in great numbers, until 
the beginning of May, when they retire to the north and to 
the high inland regions to breed ; the former inhabiting much 
more northern countries, and though said to be common in 
Canada, rarely visiting this part of the United States. 
BAY-WINGED BUNTING. — EMBERIZA GRAMINEA. 
Plate XXXI. Fig. 5. 
Grass Finch, Arct. Zool. No. 253. — Lath. iii. 273 Turton, Syst. i. p. 565. 
ZONOTRICHIA GRAMINEA. — Swainson. 
Fringilla graminea, JBonap. Synop. p. 108. — Fringilla ( Zonotrichia) graminea, 
North. Zool. ii. p. 254. 
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 European 
relation. It is partially a bird of passage here, some leaving 
us, and others remaining with us during the winter. In the 
month of March 1 observed them numerous in the lower parts 
of Georgia, where, according to Mr Abbot, they are only 
winter 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. 
