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The painted bunting (Passerina ciris) is a species of bird in the cardinal family, Cardinalidae. It is native to North America. It is native to North America. The bright plumage of the male only comes in the second year of life; in the first year they can only be distinguished from the female by close inspection.
The type species was designated in 1840 as the indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The genus name is from the Latin passerinus meaning "sparrow-like".
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The origin of the English "bunting" is unknown. [7] A 2008 genetic study found that three emberizid species that were placed in their own monotypic genera clustered within the Emberiza. These were the crested bunting (Melophus lathami), the slaty bunting (Latouchiornis siemsseni), and the corn bunting (Miliaria calandra). [8]
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The painted bunting's juveniles have two inserted moults in their first autumn, each yielding plumage like an adult female. The first starts a few days after fledging replacing the juvenile plumage with an auxiliary formative plumage ; the second a month or so later giving the formative plumage .
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Bunting (bird), Emberiza, a group of Old World passerine birds; Passerina, a group of birds in the Cardinalidae family known as the North American buntings; Blue bunting, Cyanocompsa parellina; Lark bunting, Calamospiza melanocorys; Plectrophenax, snow and McKay's buntings; Lapland longspur or Lapland bunting, Calcarius lapponicus