290 INSESSORES. EMBERIZA. REED-BUNTING 



REED-BUNTING. 



EMBERIZA SCHCENICULUS. Linn. 

 PLATE LII. FIG. 5, 6. 



Emberiza Schceniculus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 311. 17 Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 881. 



sp. 17 Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 402. sp. 13. 

 Emberiza arundinacea, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 881 Lath. Ind. Ornith. p. 403, 



var. X. 

 Passer torquatus, et arundinaceus, Raii Syn. p. 93. A. 3. Will. p. 196. 



Briss. 3. p. 274. 5. 

 Ortolan de Roseaux, Buff. Ois. v. 4. p. 315 Id. PL Enl. 247- f. 2. male, 



and pi. 477. f. 2. female. 

 Le Coqueluche, Buff. Ois. v. 4. p. 320. male. 

 Bruant de Roseau, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 307. 

 Der Rhorhammer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 269. Meyer, Tasschenb. 



Deut. v. 1. p. 181 Frisch, t. 7- f. 1. A. B. 



Reed-Bunting, Br. Zool. No. 120 Arct. ZooL 2. p. 368. E Albin. 2. 



t. 51. Lath. Syn. 8. p. 173 Id. Sup. p. 157 Lewirfs Br. Birds, 2. 



t. 75 Hayeks Br. Birds, t. 35 Mont. Ornith. Diet. v. 2. Bewick's Br. 



Birds, p. and t. 145 Shaw's Zool. v. 9. p. 362. t. 59 Wale. t. 14. 



/Emberiza passerina, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 3. p. 403. sp. 14. Gmel. Syst. 1. 



p. 871. 

 I Pass 



Syn. of ) Passerine Bunting, Lath. Syn. 3. p. 196. 35. 



young Male \Mountain Sparrow, Alb. v. 3. t. 66. 



iale ' Sperlings-ammer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 277. /d Tasschenb. 

 \ Deut. p. 141. sp. 9. 



PROVINCIAL Reed-Sparrow, Black-headed Bunting. 



THIS is a common bird upon marshes, the edges of rivers, 

 and other places favourable for reeds and aquatic herbage. 

 By many authors the nidification of this bird has been con- 

 founded with that of the Sedge- Warbler (Salicaria Phragml- 

 Nest, &c. tis) 9 a species inhabiting the same localities. The nest, how- 

 ever, differs both in fabric and situation, being generally built 

 in a low bush, or tuft of grass, and not suspended between the 

 stems of the reeds, just above the surface of the water, as I 

 have before described in the account of the Sedge- Warbler. 

 The materials are also in some degree different ; consisting, 

 in the instance now before us, of dried grasses and moss, 

 lined with hair. The eggs are four or five in number, of a 

 greyish- white, with a pinkish tinge, spotted and veined with 



