TOWHE BUNTING. 
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and female, have the tail tipt with white, and the whole lower 
parts nearly white ; in the month of September, the orna- 
mental feathers on the throat of the young males begin to 
appear. 
On dissection, the heart was found to be remarkably large, 
nearly as big as the cranium ; and the stomach, though dis- 
tended with food, uncommonly small, not exceeding the globe 
of the eye, and scarcely more than one-sixth part as large as 
the heart ; the fibres of the last were also exceedingly strong. 
The brain was in large quantity, and very thin ; the tongue, 
from the tip to an extent equal with the length of the bill, 
was perforated, forming two closely attached parallel and 
cylindrical tubes ; the other extremities of the tongue corres- 
ponded exactly to those of the Woodpecker, passing up the 
hind head, and reaching to the base of the upper mandible. 
These observations were verified in five different subjects, all 
of whose stomachs contained fragments of insects, and some 
of them whole ones. 
TOWHE BUNTING. — EMBERIZA ERYTHROPTHALMA. 
Plate X. Fig. 5. 
Fringilla erythropthalma, Linn . Syst. p. 318, 6. — Le Pinson de la Caroline, Briss. 
Orn. iii. p. 169, 44. — Buff. Ois. iv. p. 141. — Lath. ii. p. 199, No. 43. — 
Catesb. Car. i. plate 34 Beale's Museum , No. 5970. 
PIPILO ERYTHROPTHALMA. — \i billot. 
Pipilo erythropthalma, Vieill. Gal. des Ois. plate 80 Fringilla erythropthalma, 
Bonap. Synop. p. 112 The Towhe Bunting, Aud. plate 29, male and female ; 
Orn. Biog. i. p. 150. 
This is a very common, but humble and inoffensive species, 
frequenting close sheltered thickets, where it spends most of 
its time in scratching up the leaves for worms, and for the 
larvse and eggs of insects. It is far from being shy, frequently 
suffering a person to walk round the bush or thicket where it 
is at work, without betraying any marks of alarm, and when 
