CIEL BUNTING 



Emboiza cirlus. 



'HIS handsome little bird has a 

 strong general resemblance to 

 the Yellow-Hammer, and no 

 doubt is frequently mistaken 

 for that bird, especially if it 

 happens to be a female, in 

 which case the similarity is 

 the most strongly marked. 

 Any close observer may, how- 

 ever, easily distinguish these 

 birds from one another, as the 

 male Cirl Bunting has a black 

 throat, and both the male and 

 female have the rump feathers 

 of a ^ pretty olive-green. 

 Neither of these markings 

 are found in the plumage 

 of the Yellow-Hammer, 



The Cirl Bunting is said to 

 be met with abundantly in 

 all the southern parts of the 

 European continent, whilst in 

 our own islands it has been 

 met with at times in nearly 



H 



