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THE BLACK-HEADED BUNTING. 



Emheriza sclixniclus, Beed Buntiitg, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 440, 

 ,, ,, ,, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



,, Black headed Buiituig, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. 



p. 179. 

 ,, Reed Bunting, Flem. Brit. An. p. 78. 



acltceniculus, ,, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 290. 



schxniclus, ,, ,, Jen vns, Brit. Vert. p. 130. 



schoeniciilus, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xiii. 



,, Bruant de roseau, Temm. Man. d'Ornith, vol. i. p. 307. 



The Black-headed Bunting, or Reed Bunting, as it 

 is also called, is a Avell-known inhabitant of marshy places, 

 the sides of lakes and large ponds, banks of rivers or canals, 

 rush-grown water meadows and beds of osiers, and though 

 local from the partiality the bird exhibits to live in the vici- 

 nity of water, it is not a rare species in situations which 

 accord with its habits, and it remains in this country through- 

 out the year. 



