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BLACK-HEADED BUNTING. 
REED BUNTING. WATER SPARROW. 
CHINK. BLACK BONNET. PASSERINE BUNTING. 
MOUNTAIN SPARROW. 
PLATE LXXVII. 
Emberiza scheniclus, : Pennant. Montaev. 
Eimberiza passerina, . . Latream. 
Emberiza scheniculus, . GouLp. 
Eimberiza arundinacea, . Gmwetin. Latina. 
Passer arundinaceus, : Livee 
THE nest is commonly placed on the ground, among 
coarse grass, weeds, sedge, or rushes, on a bank near 
the edge of the water which the bird frequents, and 
occasionally in the lower part of some low bush or 
stump, a few inches above the ground; sometimes it is 
said to have been met with in a furze or gorse bush, 
at a considerable distance from water; and Mr. Hewitson 
relates that he has, though rarely, found it at an elevation 
of two feet or more above the water, and supported on 
a mass of fallen reeds. J. Barstow, Esq., of Garrow Hill, 
near York, has informed me of one he found near there 
on the 7th of July, 1852, in a hedge, about a yard from 
the ground, some way from any pond: it contained four 
eges. It is composed of grasses and fragments of rushes, 
lined with the down of the reed, a little moss, or finer 
rass, or hair. 
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