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EMBERIZA SCHGENICULUS. THE REED 

 BUNTING. 



BLACK-HEADED BUNTING. REED SPARROW. WATER SPARROW. RING-BIRD. 

 RING BUNTING. CHINK. BLACK-BONNET. 



Emberiza Schoeniclus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 311. 



Emberiza Schoeniclus. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 402. 



Emberiza passerina. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 40.3. 



Reed Bunting. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Bruant de roseau. Emberiza Schoeniculus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 307. 



Reed-Bunting. Emberiza Schoeniculus. Selb. Illustr. I. 290. 



Emberiza Schoeniculus. Reed-Bunting. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 130. 



Male with the head and throat black ; a line from the lower 

 mandible down the neck^ a broad band oxer the back of the neck^ 

 and the lower 'parts ^ ichite ; the back bright chestnut^ each feather 

 bronmish-black in the middle. Female icith the upper parts as 

 in the male^ but paler ; a band of yellowish-grey across the neck ; 

 the head of the same colour as the back ; the lower parts greyish- 

 white. 



Male. — The Reed Bunting is a much smaller and more 

 slender bird than the Yellow Bunting, which however it re- 

 sembles in form. Its plumage is soft, rather blended, slightly 

 glossed ; the feathers lanceolate, those about the base of the 

 bill terminated by short bristles. The wing is broad and of 

 ordinary length ; the second, third, and fourth quills almost 

 equal, the first slightly shorter, and equal to the fifth ; all these 

 excepting the first slightly cut out on the outer web towards 

 the end ; the primaries obtuse, the secondaries truncato-retuse, 

 the proximal tapering. The tail is rather long, straight, and 

 emarginate. 



The bill is brownish-black above, paler beneath ; the iris 

 brown ; the feet flesh-coloured, the toes dusky, the claws black- 



