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valleys, and the holm lands, where there is an extent of 

 flat surface bordering streams. At Annandale, in Dum- 

 fries-shire, frequent ; and in a note to his edition of Whitens 

 Selborne, Sir William Jardine states his belief that we re- 

 ceive a considerable number at the great general migra- 

 tion, at the commencement of winter, most probably from 

 Sweden and Norway. Mr. William Macgillivray, of Edin- 

 burgh, mentions that it is common in the outer Hebrides, 

 where it is called Sparrow. In this gentleman's recently 

 published work, detailing the anatomical peculiarities, as 

 well as describing minutely the external characters of a 

 portion of our " British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory," 

 it is stated that this Bunting is generally distributed, but 

 not very common in some districts, preferring grass and 

 corn fields to moors or mountain pastures. Mr. Selby ob- 

 served it in the cultivated lower grounds of Sutherland- 

 shire ; and Mr. Low, Dr. Fleming, and Mr. Dunn, include 

 it as a bird of Orkney and Shetland. It inhabits Den- 

 mark and Sweden, and remains there in considerable num- 

 bers during winter. It is found on the European conti- 

 nent from Russia to the Mediterranean, and is common in 

 Corfu, Sicily, Malta, Crete, in the Morea, at Smyrna, and 

 at Trebizond. 



The upper mandible is small and dark brown, the lower 

 one pale yellow brown ; irides dark hazel ; the head, neck, 

 back, and upper tail-coverts pale hair-brown, streaked lon- 

 gitudinally with dark brown, the dark line occupying the 

 centre of each feather ; all the wing-coverts and tertials 

 dark brown, broadly margined with pale wood brown; 

 quill and tail-feathers dark brown, with lighter-coloured 

 edges; tail slightly forked; chin, throat, breast, and all 

 the under parts of the body dull whitish brown, marked 

 on the sides of the neck and on the breast with conical spots 



