160 PAPERS, ETC. 
DIVISION CONIROSTRES. 
ALAUDIDAE. ALAUDA. 
41.—A. arvensis.— Skylark. 
Eggs greyish white, mottled with darker grey and ash 
brown, 11 lines by 83 lines. 
42.—A. arborea.— Woodlark. 
These birds through the great demand for them as songsters 
are gradually becoming so rare, that a nest is in some 
parts a rarity. The eggs are pale reddish white, 
spotted and speckled with dull brown, 94 lines by 7 
lines. 
EMBERIZIDAE. EMBERIZA. 
43.—Emberiza miliaris. — Common Bunting. 
Breeds about the end of April, laying four or five eggs ofa 
purplish white ground colour, streaked and spotted 
with dark purple brown, 1 inch by 83 lines. 
44.-——E. schoniculus.— Black headed Bunting, or 
Reed Sparrow. 
The eggs of this bird are of a pale purple brown or smoke 
colour, streaked with darker brown, almost black, 94 
lines by 7 lines. 
45.—E. citrinella.— Yellow Ammer. 
The name of this bird should as its derivation appears to 
denote, be written without an “ h,” ammer being the 
German for bunting, as “ Schnee-ammer,” the snow 
bunting, “ Grau-ammer,” the common bunting, &c. 
Eggs pale purplish white, veined and speckled with 
dark reddish brown, length 10% lines by 7 lines. 
They are hatched early in June. _ 
46.—E. Cirlus.— Cirl Bunting. 
The eggs of this species are similar to those of the preced- 
ing, perhaps a little whiter in their ground colour. 
They are rare and found mostly near the coast. 
