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$Unique_ID{BRD00803}
$Pretitle{}
$Title{Shattuck's Bunting}
$Subject{Fringillinae; Spizella; pallida; Emberiza; shattuckii; Shattuck's
Bunting; Clay-colored Sparrow}
$Journal{Birds of America: Volume VII}
$Volume{Vol. 7:347-348}
$Family{Fringillinae}
$Genus{Emberiza; Spizella}
$Species{shattuckii; pallida}
$Common_Name{Shattuck's Bunting; Clay-colored Sparrow}
$Log{
Plate CCCCLXLIII*00803P1.scf
Family*00267.txt
Genus*00273.txt
}
Portions copyright (c) Creative Multimedia Corp., 1990-91, 1992
B I R D S O F A M E R I C A .
By John James Audubon, F. R. SS. L. & E.
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VOL. VII.
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SHATTUCK'S BUNTING.
[Clay-colored Sparrow.]
EMBERIZA SHATTUCKII, Aud.
[Spizella pallida.]
PLATE CCCCLXLIII.--MALE.
This handsome little species is found quite abundant throughout the country
bordering on the Upper Missouri. It inhabits with particular partiality the
small vallies found here and there along the numerous ravines running from the
interior, and between such hills as I have already mentioned. Its usual
demeanour resembles much that of the Chipping Bunting, Emberiza socialis of
WILSON, and like it, it spends much of its time in singing its monotonous
ditties; whilst its mate is engaged in the pleasing task of incubation. When
approached it will dive and conceal itself either amid the low bushes around, or
will seek a large cluster or patch of wild roses, so abundant in that section of
country, and the fragrance of which will reach the olfactory nerve of the
traveller or gunner for many paces.
The nest of the Shattuck Bunting is usually placed on a small horizontal
branch, seven or eight feet from the ground; and I believe is occasionally
placed in the broken and hollow branches of trees. The eggs, four or five in
number, are blue, spotted with reddish-brown toward the large end, and placed in
a nest so slightly formed of slender grasses, circularly lined with horse or
cattle hair, as to resemble as much as possible the nest of the species to which
it is allied.
I have great pleasure in naming this species after my worthy young friend
GEORGE C. SHATTUCK, Esq., M. D., of Boston, one of the amiable gentlemen who
accompanied me on my voyage to the coast of Labrador.
SHATTUCK'S BUNTING, Emberiza Shattuckii, Aud.
5 9/16, 8 1/16.
Abundant throughout the country bordering the Upper Missouri.
In the male, the bill is cinnamon colour, darker towards the extremities,
the lower mandible lighter. A medial line and a collar passing back of the head
and running behind the cheeks, light bluish-grey; a line over the eyes, another
running from the lower mandible and the throat, white. Cheeks, rest of the
head, and upper parts of the back, dull yellowish-brown streaked with
brownish-black. Rump greyish-brown without streaks; two bands of pale yellowish
on the wings. The second primary longest. Wings brownish, edged with whitish
or pale dull yellow. Tail dull brown, the feathers edged with paler. Sides
dull yellowish-brown, the middle of the lower parts much lighter. A small
streak of blackish runs from the lower corner of the inferior mandible, legs and
feet cinnamon colour.
From point of bill to end of tail 5 9/16, inches; alar extent 8 1/16. Wing
from flexure 2 7/16; tail 2 3/8; tarsus nearly 5/8. Eye brown.