CIRL BUNTING. 451 



haunts the vicinity of streams, and seems in that country to 

 replace the Yellow Bunting, which he did not notice in Asia 

 Minor. 



The adult male in summer has the beak bluish lead colour, 

 the palatine knob about the same size as that of the Yellow 

 Bunting ; the irides hazel ; the top of the head dark olive, 

 streaked with black ; over the eye, and on the cheeks, a 

 patch of bright lemon-yellow ; the ear-coverts dark dusky 

 green ; the back rich chestnut-brown ; the primaries and se- 

 condaries dusky black, with very narrow yellowish edges ; the 

 tertials, the small and the large wing-coverts, dusky black in 

 the centre, broadly margined with chestnut ; upper tail- 

 coverts yellowish-olive, streaked with dusky grey ; tail-feathers 

 dusky black ; the outer two on each side with a patch of 

 white on the inner broad webs ; the central pair rather shorter 

 than the others, and tinged with red, the rest with very nar- 

 row light-coloured edges. The chin and throat black ; below 

 the black a crescentic patch of bright lemon-yellow, the ends 

 of which reach to the inferior edge of the dark ear-coverts ; 

 upper part of the breast dull olive, bounded below by a 

 chestnut band, which is narrowest in the middle ; belly and 

 under tail-coverts dull yellow ; legs, toes, and claws, light 

 brown. 



In winter the plumage is less brilliant generally, and the 

 black feathers of the head and throat have lighter-coloured 

 margins. 



The whole length of the male bird, six inches and a half. 

 From the carpal joint to the end of the wing, three inches 

 and a half: the second and third primaries are equal in 

 length, and the longest in the wing ; the first and fourth are 

 also equal in length, bvit a little shorter than the second and 

 third ; the fifth full one-eighth of an inch shorter than the 

 fourth. 



The female is without the black colour or the bright 



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