148 BRITISH BIRDS. 
EMBERIZA MILIARIA. 
CORN-BUNTING. 
(Piate 13.) 
Emberiza cynchramus, Briss. Orn, iii. p. 292 (1760). 
Emberiza miliaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 308 (1766); et auctorum plurimorum— 
Gmelin, Latham, Temminck, Naumann, (fHeuglin), Gould, Newton, Dresser, &c. 
Fringilla projer, Mill. Natursyst. Suppl. p. 164 (1776). 
Miliaria septentrionalis, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 291 (1831). 
Miliaria europa, Swans, Classif. B. i. p. 290 (1887). 
Cynchramus miliaria (Linn.), Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur, and N. Amer. p. 35 
(1838). 
Spinus miliarius (Linn.), Gray, List Gen. B. p. 61 (1841). 
Cryptophaga miliaria (Linn.), Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 127 (1850). 
Citrinella miliaria (Zinn.), Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 114 (1870). 
The Corn-Bunting, often inappropriately called the Common Bunting, 
is by no means the commonest or best known of the British species of this 
genus. It is common enough in some localities, rare in others, and its 
distribution is certainly local. Owing to its preference for well-cultivated 
districts, it is a comparatively common bird in the south of England, 
including Guernsey ; and in the north it is by no means rare, although 
local. In Scotland, according to Mr. Gray, it is less local in the western 
districts than in the eastern, and extends in the latter from the south of 
Wigtownshire to the north of the Outer Hebrides, and eyen to St. Kilda. 
In the east it is by no means so common in summer ; but very large flocks 
are sometimes met with in winter. It also breeds in the Orkneys and the 
Shetlands, in the latter islands being much commoner in winter than in 
summer. It is found throughout Ireland in suitable districts, where it is 
also a common resident, becoming to a certain extent gregarious in 
winter. 
The Corn-Bunting has a somewhat restricted range, and inhabits the 
south-western portion of the Palzearctic Region, where it is for the most part 
aresident. Beyond the British Islands its range extends throughout Central 
and Southern Europe. It is only found in the extreme south of Norway 
and Sweden; and east of the Baltic its northern limit appears to be Riga. 
It is doubtful if it has ever occurred as far north as Moscow or the Ural 
Mountains ; but it is very locally distributed in Southern Russia, where it 
is a partial migrant. It is a resident in the Caucasus and Western 
Turkestan, and there is an example in the museum at Omsk said to have 
been obtained in the neighbourhood. It is a resident in the Canaries and 
North-western Africa ; but in Egypt and Arabia Petreea it is only found 
