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FRINGILLA LEUCOPHRYS. 
161 . FRINGILLA LEUCOPHRYS, TEMMINCK. 
EMBERIZA LEUCOPHRYS , WILSON. WHITE-CROWNED BUNTING. 
WILSON, PLATE XXXI. FIG. IV. 
This beautifully marked species is one of the rarest 
of its tribe in the United States, being 1 chiefly confined 
to the northern districts, or higher interior parts of 
the country, except in severe winters, when some few 
wanderers appear in the lower parts of the State of 
Pennsylvania. Of three specimens of this bird, the 
only ones I have yet met with, the first was caught in 
a trap near the city of New York, and lived with me 
several months. It had no song, and, as I afterwards 
discovered, was a female. Another, a male, was pre- 
sented to me by Mr Michael of Lancaster, Pennsyl- 
vania. The third, a male, and in complete plumage, 
was shot in the Great Pine Swamp, in the month of 
May. It appeared to me to be unsuspicious, silent, 
and solitary ; flitting in short flights among the under- 
wood and piles of prostrate trees, torn up by a tornado, 
that some years ago passed through the swamp. All 
my endeavours to discover the female or nest were 
unsuccessful. 
From the great scarcity of this species, our acquain- 
tance with its manners is but very limited. Those 
persons who have resided near Hudson’s Bay, where 
it is common, inform us, that it makes its nest in June, 
at the bottom of willows, and lays four chocolate- 
coloured eggs. Its flight is said to be short and silent ; 
but, when it perches, it sings very melodiously.* 
The white-crowned bunting is seven inches long, and 
ten inches in extent ; the bill, a cinnamon brown ; 
crown, from the front to the hind head, pure white, 
bounded on each side by a stripe of black proceeding 
from each nostril ; and these again are bordered by 
a stripe of pure white passing over each eye to the 
hind head, where they meet ; below this, another narrow 
Arctic Zoology, 
