A* THE BLACK-HEADED BUNTING. 



Emherlza sckaniciil/t.i. 



HIS prett y lit tle bird, lij^e 

 many other common mem- 

 bei's of the feathered tribes, 

 rejojees in a variety of 

 names, such as " Reed 

 Bunting-," " Water Spar- 

 row,'' " Chink," '' Black 

 Bonnet," " Passerine Bunt- 

 ing, ^^ and " Reed Sparrow," 

 and it is probably far better 

 known under mgst or the 

 latter of these names than 

 by the one assigned to it by 

 the ornithologist. 



The Black-headed^, Bunt- 

 ing is co mrno n in most of 

 the European countries, al- 

 though in the northern por- 

 tions of the Continent it is 

 a summer resident only. In 

 the British Isles the same 

 migratory habit is observ- 

 able, and the birds move 

 " down South " about 



