Plate CCCLXXXIV. Male and Female.
Bill very stout; tail-feathers acute. Male with the upper part of the
head, the cheeks, and the hind neck dark ash-grey, faintly streaked
with dusky; loral space whitish, a band over the eye, and a patch
below the cheek, yellow; the fore part of the back greyish-brown, with
longitudinal streaks of brownish-black, the hind part brownish-grey;
the smaller wing-coverts bright chestnut; chin white, throat black;
the lower neck and part of the breast, yellow, the rest of the breast
and abdomen, white. Female similar to the male, but paler, and without
the black patch on the throat.
_Male_, 6-1/2, 10-3/8.
Breeds abundantly in Texas and all the Western Prairies; less so from
Virginia to Massachusetts. Rare in Ohio and Kentucky. Migratory.
Black-throated Bunting, Emberiza Americana, Wils. Amer. Orn.
v. i. p. 411.
Fringilla Americana, Bonap. Syn. p. 107.
Black-throated Bunting, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 461.
Black-throated Bunting, Emberiza Americana, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
iv. p. 599.