yellow-breasted bunting

noun

: a bunting (Emberiza aureola) that is common in northern Russia and Siberia, winters in tropical Asia, and in the adult male is chestnut above with a buff stripe over the eye and a yellow breast crossed by a narrow chestnut band

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