2 OUR RARER BRITISH BREEDING BIRDS. 



suffused with huffish-brown, and blotched, spotted, 

 and marbled with dark brown ; another, faint brick- 

 red marked with a darker tint of the same colour 

 and reddish-brown ; whilst a third kind is said 

 tQcbe faint r jblue,, marked with yellowish-brown and 

 gffeyy Soirte ;* specimens are indistinguishable from 

 .those c of ..the Garden Warbler, but a sight of the 

 ^Y^i^lSififefin^ females of either species will easily 

 settle any doubts in regard to correct identity. 



BUNTING, CORN. 



NOWHEEE have I met with the Corn Bunting half 

 so numerously as in the Outer Hebrides, where 

 the species may be fairly described as abundant. 

 Wherever there is a crofter's hut and a bit of 

 cultivated land in some of the islands, such as 

 North Uist, there, sure enough, will be a pair of 

 these sober-coloured, easy-going birds. During 

 the breeding season the male may be seen for 

 hours together every day sitting on some coign 

 of vantage wearisomely iterating his weak, squeak- 

 ing, unvaried song, which sounds to me some- 

 thing like pit-pit, cliizzy-cliizzy chea-ea-ea, and 

 becomes very monotonous when forced upon the 

 ears of the listener for any considerable time. 



Upon being approached whilst sitting on a 

 wall or other eminence, the bird seems loth to 

 summon sufficient energy to move, and when it 

 does so, often goes away with both legs hanging 

 down, as if too idle to gather them up. 



One authority describes the species as most 

 abundant in the southern counties of England, 

 but, with all due deference to him, I do not think 



