Plate CCCC. Fig. 4. Male.
Bill very stout, with the upper outline considerably convex. Head,
cheeks, hind neck, sides of the neck, fore part of the breast, and
sides of the body, deep bluish-grey, the head streaked with black;
back yellowish-brown, streaked with dusky, the feathers edged with
grey, rump yellowish-grey; quills and tail-feathers wood-brown,
slightly edged with paler; a narrow white line over the eye; throat
white, with a narrow band of black on each side; abdomen and middle
part of breast greyish-white.
_Male_, 5-3/4, 9.
One specimen (in my possession) procured in Pennsylvania.
Townsend's Bunting, Emberiza Townsendii, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
ii. p. 183; v. v. p. 90.