290 INSESSORES. EMBERIZA. Reed-Bunting 



REED-BUNTING. 



Emberiza Schceniculus. Linn. 

 PLATE LII. Fig. 5, 6. 



Emberiza Schoeniculus, Li7in. Syst. 1. p. 311. 17 Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 881. 



sp. 17 — Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 402. sp. 13. 

 Emberiza arundinacea, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 881 Lath. Ind. Ornith. p. 403. 



var. X. 

 Passer torquatus, et arundinaceus, Rait Syn. p. 93. A. 3. — Will. p. I'JC 



—Briss. 3. p. 274. 5. 

 Ortolan de Roseaux, Buff. Ois. v. 4. p. 315 Id. V\. Enl. 247. f. 2. male, 



and pi. 477. f. 2. female. 

 Le Coqueluche, Buff. Ois. v. 4. p. 320. male. 

 Bruant de Roseau, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 307. 

 Der llhorhammer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 209 Meyer, Tasschenb. 



Deut. V. 1. p. 181.— Frisc//, t. 7. f. 1. A. B- 

 Reed-Bunting, Br. Zool. No. 120 — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 368. E Albin. 2. 



t. 51. — Lath. Syn. 8. p. 173.^/fZ. Sup. p. 157 Lctvin's Br. Birds, 2. 



t. 75 — Haye's Br. Birds, t. 35 Mont. Ornith. Diet. v. 2 Bewick's Br, 



Birds, p. and t. 145 — Shaw's Zool. v. 9. p. 362. t. 59 Wale. t. 14, 



I Emberiza passerina, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 3. p. 403. sp. 14. — Gmel. Svst. 1. 

 p. 871. 

 Passerine Bunting, Lath. Syn. 3. p. 196. 35. 

 Mountain Sparrow, Alb. v. 3. t. 66. 

 Sperlings-ammer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 211.-1(1. Tasschenb. 

 Deut. p. 141. sp. 9. 



Provincial — Reed-Sparrow, Black-headed Bunting. 



This is a common bird upon marshes, the edges of rivers, 

 and other places favourable for reeds and aquatic herbage. 

 By many authors the nidification of this bird has been con- 

 founded with that of the Sedge- Warbler {Salicaria Phragmi- 

 Nest, &c. tis), a species inliabiting the same localities. The nest, how- 

 ever, differs both in fabric and situation, being generally built 

 in a low bush, or tuft of grass, and not suspended between the 

 stems of the reeds, just above the surface of the water, as I 

 have before described in the account of the Sedge- Warbler. 

 The materials are also in some degree different ; consisting, 

 in the instance now before us, of dried grasses and moss, 

 lined with hair. The eggs are four or five in number, of a 

 greyish-white, Avith a pinkish tinge, spotted and veined with 



