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31. Emberiza familiaris, the familiar bunting: the 
bill is pointed, (trait, narrow, and black ; head, neck, and 
bread, afh-coloured, the upper parts ot the body afh- 
colour fpotted with brown ; under the wings, and towards 
the tail, yellow; tail tipped with white. This was met 
with at Java, by Mr. Olbeck, and was exceedingly fami¬ 
liar ; for if t lie cage door was opened, it would jump upon 
the firlt perfon’s hand that was*bflered ; if any one whittled 
to it, it would fing very fweetlyin return ; if it favva difit 
of water, it went immediately and bathed itfelf. It fed 
on rice. 
32. Emberiza flaveola, the yellow-faced bunting: fize 
of a hedge fparrow : forehead and throat yellow ; general 
colour grey. Native place uncertain ; but Linnaeus fays 
that it inhabits warm countries. 
33. Emberiza amazona, the amazon bunting: fize of 
a titmdufe: general colour brown; crown of the head 
yellow ; bafe of the wings beneath, and vent, whitifli. 
Inhabits Surinam. 
34. Emberiza olivacea, the olive bunting: about the 
fize of a wren; bill grey brown; the head, and upper 
parts of the body, olive green ; throat orange ; between 
the bill and eye a fpot of yellow dretching over the eyes ; 
fore part of the neck, and upper part of the bread, black ; 
the under parts olive grey ; edge of the wings yellow ; 
quills brown, edged with olive green ; tail of this lad 
colour; legs brown. In the female' the colours are lefs 
brilliant. Inhabits S't. Domingo. 
35. Emberiza paderina, the paderine bunting : fize of 
the reed bird : head ferruginous adi-colour; fome of the 
feathers on the crown black ; behind the eye a pale dreak, 
and on each from the chin a white line ; back grey brown ; 
the middle of each feather black ; the fore part of the 
neck black, with the margins of the feathers pale; the 
under parts cinereous white, blotched with pale ferrugi¬ 
nous on the fides; wings, for the mod part, ferruginous, 
with yellowifh margins; tail a little forked, and black; 
the two middle feathers margined with ferruginous; the 
two outer ones are obliquely black and white, divided 
longitudinally; legs brown. The female is like the male, 
but wants the black head and chin. Inhabits Rudia; and 
is feen in great plenty along the Jaick in autumn, migra¬ 
ting in pairs to the foutliward : the fledi is accounted ex¬ 
cellent. 
36. Emberiza ferruginea, the ferruginous bunting: 
head, neck, bread, and fides, ferruginous;- belly white ; 
wings ferruginous, with two white marks on the prime 
quills ; tail the fame. Inhabits Rudia. 
37. Emberiza Americana, the American bunting : fize 
of the yellow-hammer; bill brown; the upper parts of 
the plumage cinereous, dreaked with brown on the back: 
over the eye a dreak of yellow ; and another, pading un¬ 
der the eye ; chin white ; on the throat a large triangular 
fpot of black ; bread, and middle of the belly, yellow : 
fides, over the thighs, dreaked with dulky; greater wing- 
coverts tawny ; quills and tail dulky, with pale edges; 
legs brown, The female is like the male above ; but has 
r.o black fpot on the throat, nor dreaks above the eye. 
Inhabits America. 
38. Emberiza Brafilienfis, tli£ Brafilian bunting : fize of 
a fparrow : bill and eyes black ; the crown, throat, neck, 
and under parts, yellow ; back, fcapulars, wings, and tail, 
varied with greenifli, yellow, and brown; legs brown. 
The female has not the gaudy colours of the male, being 
plain, like a fparrow. They are natives of Brafil, and the 
male has an agreeable note. 
39. Emberiza Mexvcana, the Mexican bunting : bill 
pale ; head, as far as the crown, fides of the head, throat, 
and fore part of the neck, yellow ; the upper parts brown, 
tending upwards, to the eye in a point; the under parts 
dull white, fpotted with brown ; quills and tail edged 
with pale brown. Native of Mexico. 
40. Emberiza militaris, the military bunting: head 
End back yellowitti brown ; bread, and lower part of the 
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back, yellow; (boulders greenidi ; belly white; quills 
and tail brown ; the outer edges yellowifh' at the tips. 
Found in the i(land of Malta. 
41. Emberiza melanocephala, the black-headed.bunt¬ 
ing : fize of the yellow-hammer: head black, extend¬ 
ing to the middle of the neck; back rufous; throat, 
bread, belly, thighs, and rump, yellow ; fides of the 
bread inclined to rufous ; quills brown,.with whitifli mar¬ 
gins; tail plain brown, but paler than the quills. 
42. Emberiza brumalis, tire brumal bunting : fore¬ 
head, and round the eyes, yellow; bind-head, neck, and 
fides, cinereous; back yellowidt brown ; the under parts 
of the body and vent yellow; thighs whitifli; quills' 
brown, with, yellow edges. This fpeciesis common about 
Tyrol, in Auftria, where it is called citrincl/o ; is frequently 
caught in November, and kept in a cage for its fong. 
43. Emberiza erythrophthalma, the towhe bunting: 
bill brown; hides red ; head, throat, neck, back, wing- 
coverts, and rump, black ; bread, belly, fides, thighs, and 
under tail-coverts, dull red ; middle of the belly white ; 
quills and tail black, the firfi edged with white, the laft a 
little forked ; legs brown. The female is wholly brown, 
except on the bread:, which has a flight tinge of red. 
This fpecies inhabits Carolina, and frequents the mod 
fiiady woods; vilits New York in the fpring; has no fong, 
but a kind of twittering note ; and is a reftlefs bird. It 
is called the American btilfinch. 
44. Emberiza leucophrys, the white-crowned bunting : 
fize of a chaffinch ; bill fle(h-colour ; on the crown a white 
ftripe, which does not quite reach, the bill; on each fide 
of this is a (tripe of black ; over the eyes a line of white, 
which paffies to the vertical ftripe behind ; neck.cinereous, 
paleft on the bread ; back ferruginous brown ; rump cine¬ 
reous ; wings brown ; the outer edge of the prime quills' 
very pale; the inftdes cinereous; acrofs the wings two 
bands of white ; the badard wing, and the under parts, 
are white; the bread affi-colour; vent and thighs yel¬ 
low ; tail brown. The female is much like the male. 
This fpecies inhabits Canada, and vifits Severn Settle¬ 
ment in June; it is alfo met with at Albany Fort in 
May ; yhere it days the dimmer, and departs in Sep¬ 
tember. It makes its ned in the bottom of wil¬ 
lows, and lays three chocolate-coloured eggs; its chief 
food is feeds of grafs, worms, grubs, and o'ther in- 
fefts. 
45. Emberiza lu&uofa, the wreathed bunting : fize of 
thetitmoufe; bill black; a white line goes from the fore¬ 
head to the nape, where it ends; in the middle of each 
wing is a white fpot; the forehead, bread, belly, rump, 
and vent, are white ; the red of the plumage is black. 
46. Emberiza aureola, the yellow-breaded bunting : bill 
tranfparent,except at the edge of the upper mandible^ where 
it is blackifh ; forehead blackifti, with a dark (hade on thd 
crown ; hind head, nape, and between the wings, rufous ; 
the feathers fringed with grey at the tips; back and rump 
hoary, and fome of the (hafts blotched with black ; fcapu¬ 
lars wlrite ; outer webs of the fecond wing-coverts rufous; 
quills brown, with white edges ; bread and belly yellow ; 
acrofs the bread a ferruginous crefcent; under tail-coverts 
white; tail brown. The female has the crown blacker, 
and the margins of the feathers on the back more hoary ; 
otherwife like the male. Inhabits the pine foreds of 
Catharinefburgh. Aljfo met with on the poplars and wil¬ 
lows in the ifiands of the Irtidi, and other rivers in Siberia 
and Kamtfcliatka.' 
47. Emberiza Sandwichenfis, the Sandwich bunting : 
bill dulky ; upper parts of the body brown ; each feather 
daffied down the (haft with darker brown ; at the nodrils 
arifes a dreak of yellow, which palles over the eyes to the 
hind-head ; and from the gape is a dark one, palling under 
the eye ; iides of the head, between the dreaks, dulky; 
the under parts of the body dulky white, dallied with 
brown ; the middle of the belly plain dulky white ; quills 
brown, with paler edges; tail brown ; legs dulky. This 
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