THE BLACK-HEADED BUNTING. 



Ember iza schoeniculus. 



" Reed 

 Spar- 



HIS pretty little bird, like 

 many other common mem- 

 bers of the feathered tribes, 

 rejoices in a variety of 

 names, such as 

 Bunting/' " Water 

 row/' " Chink/' " Black 

 Bonnet/' " Passerine Bunt- 

 ing," and " Reed Sparrow," 

 and it is probably far better 

 known under most or the 

 latter of these names than 

 by the one assigned to it by 

 the ornithologist. 



The Black-headed Bunt- 

 ing is common in most of 

 the European countries, al- 

 though in the northern por- 

 tions of the Continent it is 

 a summer resident only. In 

 the British Isles the same 

 migratory habit is observ- 

 able, and the birds move 

 " down South " about 



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