chin, throat, and belly are yellow ; the neck and back 

 are greenish olive ; the breast is reddish ; the rump 

 brown red ; the tail a little forked, and edged with 

 greenish yellow, the two outer feathers are marked 

 with white on the exterior webs ; the legs are brown 

 yellow. 



The nest is formed of straw and dried grass, and 

 lined with fine grass and long hair. 



The female lays from 3 to 5 whitish, or purplish- 

 blue eggs. 



5. CIRLUS, CIRL-BUNTING. 



E. supra varia, subtus lutea, pectore maculato, super- 

 ciliis luteis, rectricibus duabus extimis macula 

 alba cuneata. Shaw. 



Montagu first discovered this species near Kings- 

 bridge, in the winter of 1 800, amongst flocks of yel- 

 low buntings. See the Orn. Die. and Lin. Trans. 

 vol. 7. p. 276. 



It is thus described : the bill is bluish lead colour 

 above, paler beneath ; the irides are hazel ; the crown 

 of the head, nape of the neck, and upper part of the 

 breast are of a fine olive green ; the first streaked 

 with dusky ; from the upper mandible, through the 

 eye is a dusky stroke, above and beneath the eye is 

 a bright yellow one; the throat is black, slightly 

 tipped with brown, running into a bar under the yel- 



