361 REED B U N T I N G. 



- Fed with oats and millet j and grow fo fat, that they would certainly 



die, if not killed in a critical minute. They are a mere lump of 

 fat ; of a moft exquifite tafte ; but apt foon to fatiate. 



Thefe birds receive both their Greek and their Latin name from 

 their food, the millet. Ariftotle calls them Cynchromi ; and the 

 Latins, Miliari<e *. The latter kept and fattened them in their 

 ornithones, or fov.'l-yardsj as the Italians do at prefent; which the 

 antients conftruded with the utmoft magnificence^ as well as cor- 

 veniency f. 



E. Reed B. Sr. Zoff/. 5. N" 120. 

 Saf. Sparf. Faun. Suec. N° 231. 

 Ror-Spurv. Brunnich, N° 251. 



L'Ortolan de rofeaux, Z>« Buffon, iv. 315. — PL Enh 247. 2. — Latham, ii. 173.— 

 Lev. Mus. 



.I> With black head and throat : cheeks and head encircled with 

 white : body above rufty, fpotted with black ; beneath white. 

 Female has a ruft-colored head, fpotted with black: wants the 

 white ring. 

 Placb. Is found as far north as Denmark: and is rare in Sweden. Com- 



mon in the fouth of Rujfia and Sibiria. Its fong nofturnal, and 

 fweet. Makes a neft pendulous, between four reeds. 



• Arijl. Hijl. An. lib. viii. c. 12 : and Varro de re Rujl. lib iii. c. 5. — FiceduliS 

 et miliariie diBie a cibo, quod altera fico : altera milio fiant fingues. Varro de 

 Ling. Lat. iv. 



t See a plan in the Leipfic edition of Var. de re RuJl. lib. iii. v. 



XXY. TAN ACER. 



