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furnislicd me witli notes on the localities of birds in Scotland, 

 as noticed in tlie account of the Snow Bunting, last de- 

 scribed, says of the Corn Bunting, as it is there called, that 

 it frequents the lower straths, or broad valleys, and the 

 holm lands, where there is an extent of flat surface bordering 

 streams. At Annandale, in Dumfriesshire, frequent ; and in 

 a note to his edition of White's Selborne, Sir William Jar- 

 dine states his belief that we receive a considerable number 

 at the great general migration, at the commencement of win- 

 ter, most probably from Sweden and Norway. Mr. William 

 Macgillivray, of Edinburgh, mentions that it is common in the 

 outer Hebrides, where it is called Sparrow. In this gentle- 

 man''s recently published work, detailing the anatomical pecu- 

 liarities, as well as describing minutely the external characters 

 of a portion of our " British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory," 

 it is stated that this Bunting is generally distributed, but 

 not very common in some districts, preferring grass and corn 

 fields to moors or mountain pastures. Mr. Selby observed 

 it in the cultivated lower grounds of Sutherlandshire ; and 

 Mr. Low, Dr. Fleming, and Mr. Dunn, include it as a bird 

 of Orkney and Shetland. It inhabits Denmark and Sweden, 

 and remains there in considerable numbers during winter. 

 It is found on the European continent from Russia to the 

 Mediterranean, and is common in the Morea, at Smyrna, and 

 at Trebizond. 



The upper mandible is small and dark brown, the lower 

 one pale yellow brown ; irides dark hazel ; the head, neck, 

 back, and upper tail-coverts pale hair-brown, streaked lon- 

 gitudinally with dark brown, the dark line occupying the 

 centre of each feather ; all the Aving-coverts and tertials dark 

 brown, broadly margined with pale wood brown ; quill and 

 tail-feathers dark brown, Avith lighter-coloured edges ; tail 

 slightly forked ; chin, throat, breast, and all the undei" parts 

 of the body dull whitish brown, marked on the sides of 



