The Corn Bunting 



During the winter months he loves company and consorts 

 with the Larks and Finches, generally roosting on the ground 

 with the former. 



The sexes are alike and have the upper parts pale 

 brown streaked with a darker shade of the same colour. 

 Throat whitish margined with brown spots; rest of the 

 under parts huffish white spotted on the breast and flanks 

 with brown. Length 7 in.; wing 3-6 in. 



The young are rather darker and have the wing coverts 

 broadly margined with fulvous. 



It is by no means so abundant as the next species 

 but is widely distributed in open, wild, or cultivated 

 country. 



THE YELLOW BUNTING 



Emberiza citrinella, Linnaeus 



Day after day throughout the spring and early summer 

 months the Yellow Bunting may be found, sitting on 

 the topmost spray of a hedge and repeating with mono- 

 tonous frequency his little song, which has often been 

 rendered by the words, '^A little bit of bread and no 

 cheese." It is neither long nor pretty, there is no music 

 in it, and it is delivered without soul or fervour, yet in 

 open and cultivated country, where the songs of the 

 woodland birds are absent, it forms on a warm summer's 

 day, a fitting accompaniment to the more ambitious per- 

 formance of the Lark. Decked out in bright yellow livery 

 toned down and shaded with other dark markings, the 



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