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tipped with rusty; those on the side white, tipped 
with rusty; wing-coverts white, those of primaries 
tipped with black; primary quills dusky, tipped and 
slightly margined with dirty white, white at the base; 
secondaries and some of the tertials white, the rest 
of the tertials black, broadly margined with white 
and rusty; bastard wing black ; tail—centre feathers 
black, tipped with dirty white; the three exterior 
feathers white, with a smal) patch of dusky at the 
tip of the outer web; the next feather on each side 
has nearly the whole of the outer web white and the 
inner web dusky; throat white; breast rusty; rest 
of the under parts white. This is the Tawny 
Bunting of Montagu, Bewick and other authors. 
The Mountain Bunting is the young bird of the 
year, and has less white than either of the others. 
The eggs are greenish white, with a circle of 
irregular umber-brown spots round the thick end, 
and numerous blotches of subdued lavender-purple : 
this is the description of the egg given by Yarrell, 
and agrees very nearly with a supposed specimen in 
my collection, but not at all with Meyer’s coloured 
drawing. 
Common Buntine, Emberiza miliaria. I quite 
agree with Mr. Blake-Knox’s observation, in the 
‘Zoologist,’ that the word “ Common,” 
to this bird is a misnomer, and that the Yellow 
Bunting is everywhere the more common. 
The Common, or as it is occasionally—and cer- 
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