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REED BUNTING. Class II. 



color : the back of the fame colors : the rump of a 

 rudy red: the quil-feathers dufky, their exterior 

 fides edged with yellowilh green : the tail is a lit- 

 tle forked -, the middle feathers are brown j the 

 two middlemoft edged on both fides with green j 

 the others on their exterior fides only : the inte- 

 rior fides of the two oiitmoft feathers are marked 

 obliquely near their ends with white. 



120. Reed. Schoeniclus. Ge/her a-v. 573, 



652. 

 JVil. cm. 269. 

 Reed Sparrow. Rait fyn. aij, 



95. 

 The Nettle-monger. Morton 



Northampt, 428. 

 Ror-Spurv. Brunnich 251. 

 L'Qrtulan de Rofeaux, Hor- 



tulanus arundinaceus. BriJJhn 

 a-v. Ilf. 274. 

 Emberizafchoeniclus. Lin.JyJi, 



Saf-fparf. Faun. Suec./p. 23 i . 

 Rohrammering, Meerfpatz, 



Kram. 371 . 

 Rohrammer (Reed-hammer) 



Frifch, I. 7. 

 Br. Zool. 112. plate W. 



THE reed fparrow inhabits marfny places, 

 moil commonly among reeds •, from which 

 Nest. it takes its name. Its nefl is worthy notice for 

 the artful contrivance of it, being faftened to four 

 reeds, and fufpended by them like a hammock, 

 about three feet above the water ^ the cavity of the 

 nefl: is deep, but narrow, and the materials are 

 rufhes, fine bents and hairs. It lays four or five 

 eggs, of a bluifh white, marked with irregular pur- 

 plilh veins, efpecially on the larger end. It is a 

 bird much admired for its fong, and like thenight- 



ingale it fings in the night. 



In 



