. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 272 THE RICE BUNTING. are very lean, but foon grow exce(lively fat, and fly with difficulty, fo that they are eafily Ihot. Their flay lalls three weeks; and h^th fexes make a tranfient vifit in the fpring. A few remain through tha winter in Carolina, and even in Virginia, where they Cubiiil on the fcattered grains of Indian corn. VARIETIES o/tbe RICE BUNTING. The LOUISIANA VJgrippenne, ou Ortolan de la Louijtane, BufF. Embcriza Oryzivora, Var. Liim. I confid
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 272 THE RICE BUNTING. are very lean, but foon grow exce(lively fat, and fly with difficulty, fo that they are eafily Ihot. Their flay lalls three weeks; and h^th fexes make a tranfient vifit in the fpring. A few remain through tha winter in Carolina, and even in Virginia, where they Cubiiil on the fcattered grains of Indian corn. VARIETIES o/tbe RICE BUNTING. The LOUISIANA VJgrippenne, ou Ortolan de la Louijtane, BufF. Embcriza Oryzivora, Var. Liim. I confider this as a variety of the preceding, produced by the influence of climate: its lize, its port, its fliape arc the fame, and the quills of the tail are likewife pointed, the only difference, in fhort, confiRing of tlie colours of the plumage. The Louifiana Bunting has the throat and all the under-part of the body of a light yellow, which is ftill more dilute on the lower-belly; the upper-part of the head and of the body, and the fmall fuperior coverts of the wings, are of an olive-brown ; the rump and the fuperior coverts of the tail, yellow, finely ilriped with brown : the quills of the tail blackifli, thofe of the middle edged with yellow, the lateral ones with white, the intermediate ones with the different ihadcs that intervene between white and yellow ; the great fuperior coverts of the win/is are. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strachan, and T. Cadell in the Strand, and J. Murray . ..
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