Plate CCCC. Fig. 5. Male.
Male with the upper part and sides of the head deep black, with three
bands of white on each side, one from the base of the upper mandible
over the eye and along the neck, another under the eye and over the
ear, the third bordering the throat; upper parts brownish-yellow
spotted with black; a band of white on the smaller wing-coverts; lower
parts, and a band across the fore part of the back, buffy orange.
_Male_, 6-2/12; wing, 3-1/4.
Fur Countries. Accidental, in winter, on the banks of the Mississippi.
Migratory.
Emberiza (Plectrophanes) picta, Painted Bunting, Swains. &
Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 250.
Painted Bunting, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 589.
Painted Bunting, Emberiza picta, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 91.