. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. I •It SpiciisVII. EMBERIZA LEUCOPIIRYS. WHITE-CROWNED BUNTING. [PUte XXXI. Fig. 4.] TuRTON, Syst. p. 536.* This beautifully marked species is one of the rarest of its tribe in the United States, being 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 Pennsyl- vania. Of three specimens of this bird, the only ones I have yet tr * with, the first was caught in a
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. I •It SpiciisVII. EMBERIZA LEUCOPIIRYS. WHITE-CROWNED BUNTING. [PUte XXXI. Fig. 4.] TuRTON, Syst. p. 536.* This beautifully marked species is one of the rarest of its tribe in the United States, being 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 Pennsyl- vania. Of three specimens of this bird, the only ones I have yet tr * 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 presented to mo by Mr. Michael, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The third, a male, and in com- plete plumage, was shot in the Great Pine Swamp, in the month of May, and is faithfully represented in the plate. It appeared to me to be unsuspicious, silent and solitary; flitting in short flights among the underwood and piles of prostrate trees torn up by a tornado, that some years ago passed through the swamp. All my endeavors to discover the female or nest were unsuccessful. From the great scarcity of this species our acquaintance 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-colored eggs. Its flight is said to be short and silent; but when it perches it sings very The Whito-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 stripe of black passes from the posterior angle o
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