BUNTINGS. 333 



A spring migrant to this country ; comes late, and then 

 frequents the new sown rye, where it always breeds ; does 

 not appear to go further north than Stockholm. The note 

 is a monotonous " tink, tink, tink, tink-tjohrr," and this I 

 have heard late in the summer nights ; builds generally in 

 green rye ; eggs six, pale grey, spotted and streaked with 

 purple black. The E. ccesia, Cretz, is nothing more than 

 a variety of this bird. 



129. E. SCHJENICLUS, L. Saf Sparf. The Black-headed 



Bunting. D. F. 



Length 6 in. ; colour black above, with rusty yellow 

 feather edges ; below white, with brown streaks on the 

 sides ; head and front of the neck in male deep black, 

 with a white band on the back of the neck ; the female 

 has the crown of the head blackish, with rusty grey 

 feather edges ; a white streak above the eye. 

 Is met with in swampy places, and by the sides of water 

 during the summer, from the extreme south of Sweden to 

 the north of Lapland and Finland. 



I once saw- a pure Albino variety of the black-headed 

 bunting, which was shot by a friend of mine near Gothen- 

 burg. 



130. E. KUSTICA, Pall. Vide Sparf. F. 



Eather smaller than the last; head above and on 

 the sides black ; a black streak along the crown, and 

 another above each eye ; body above red-brown or grey- 

 brown, with black spots on the back ; below white, a 

 reddish band over the breast, and reddish spots along 

 the sides ; rump as well as the edges of the primaries 

 reddish brown. 



Its habits are rather like those of the last, and the eggs 

 are nearly the same, but rather smaller. Very common in 

 Siberia and North Russia; has been occasionally shot in 

 Sweden ; supposed to breed in Lapland. 



The two white streaks on the head, the throat without 

 black, the rusty red rump and back of the neck, and the 

 reddish spots on the breast and sides, will always distinguish 



