RICE BUNTING, or BOB-O-LINK. 
{Icterus agripennis, Bonap. Audubon, pi. 54. Emberiza oryzivora , 
Wilson, ii. p. 48. pi. 12. fig. 1. [male in spring dress,] fig. 2. [fe- 
male.] Philad. Museum, No. 6026.) 
Sr. Charact. — Tail feathers very acute. — Adult male in spring 
dress, black; the hind head yellowish white; scapulars, rump, 
and tail coverts, white, tinged with ash. — Female , young , and 
male , in early autumn and winter dress, varied with brownish 
black and brownish yellow ; beneath dull yellow. The male with 
much more yellow. 
The whole continent of America, from Labrador to 
Mexico, and the great Antilles, are the occasional resi- 
dence of this truly migratory species. About the middle 
of March, or beginning of April, the cheerful Bobo- 
link makes his appearance in the southern extremity of 
the United States, becoming gradually arrayed in hisnup« 
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