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BUNTING. 



COMMON BUNTING. CORN BUNTING. BUNTING LARK. 



Emberiza miliaria, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK. 

 Emleriza ? Miliaria A bird that feeds on millet. 



THE bird before us is a native of Europe and Asia; in the 

 former, in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, and southwards 

 in Germany, Greece, and the Mediterranean, and in the latter 

 in Asia Minor. 



The Bunting is a common bird in most, though not in 

 all, parts of the kingdom, frequenting the cultivated districts, 

 and these almost exclusively, in Yorkshire, Shropshire, Sussex, 

 Cornwall, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lancashire, Northumberland, Cum- 

 berland, Durham, and other counties; in "Wales also, and in 

 various parts of Scotland Dumfriesshire, Edinburghshire, and 

 Sutherlandshire, as also in the Orkneys, where it breeds; 

 in the Hebrides and Shetland Islands. It is not, however, 

 invariably to be found in plenty in situations in which it 

 might be looked for in abundance, as in other similar ones, 

 but is somewhat capricious in the choice of its localities. 



It is believed to be in some degree migratory, and that our 

 flocks are reinforced at the commencement of winter by others 

 from the Continent; partial movements, at all events, take 

 place in the winter. 



Though seen only in pairs in the spring and summer, these 

 birds associate in the autumn and winter months with others, 

 both those of their own, though not numerously, and those 

 of other species; a community of object producing a 'com- 

 munism' of habit an ornithological 'socialism,' which may be 

 defended on the most abstract and practical principles of 



