PASSE RES. ( 180 ) EMBERIZID^. 



THE COEN BUNTING. 



COMMON BUNTING, BUNTING LARK. 



Emberiza iniiUaria. 

 Cl)f Corn Buntinff, Clje Cocit Buntlinff* 



The Craws and Rabbits nnco leati. 

 By midde?2s a?id by braes are seen ; 

 Poor Robin comes to seek a frien^ 



To our cot at inorn ; 

 And B?entings itt barnyards convene. 



To pick the corn. 



Dr. Henderson, Winter Rhymes. 



This bird appears to have certain favourite localities in 

 the county which it frequents, whilst in other districts, such 

 as the neighbourhood of Paxton, it is very seldom seen. 

 It also seems sometimes, without any apparent cause, 

 to forsake places where formerly it was common. As 

 an instance of this peculiarity, Mr. Charles Watson has 

 informed me that, until about twenty years ago, it was 

 plentiful on the Stonymoor, near Duns, but is now rarely or 

 never seen in that neighbourhood ; where, in his boyhood, he 

 was never at a loss for a Corn Bunting's wing when trout 

 flies required to be dressed for the Whitadder. The same 

 habit on the part of the bird has been noticed in the 

 vicinity of Lauder. It occurs in the neighbourhood of 

 Gordon in spring,^ and is also seen about Cockburnspath, 



1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. ix. p. 230. 



