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. 157. 2. Emberiza Townsendii, Aud. Townsend's Bunting. 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. 158. 3. Emberiza Grammaca, Say. Lark Bunting. Plate CCCXC. Fig. 1. Male.