50 EMBERIZID.E. 



PASSE RES. EMBERIZID^. 



EMBERIZA CIRLUS, Linnaeus*. 

 THE GIRL-BUNTING. 



Emberiza cirlus. 



ALTHOUGH this bird was thought by Montagu, who first 

 added its name to the British catalogue, to be restricted to our 

 most westerly counties Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, it 

 has since been found to possess a much wider range through- 

 out the south of England. It was discovered by him near 

 Kingsbridge in the winter of 1800, among flocks of Yellow 

 Buntings and Chaffinches, from which he obtained several 

 specimens of both sexes, as almost simultaneously recorded 

 by himself and Latham. In the following summer it was 

 found breeding in Devonshire, and an account of the mode by 

 which he successfully reared the young, and of their habits 



* Syst. Nat. Ed 12, i. p. 311 (1766). 



