Be USN.) Dy ee NI. Gk, 
Emberiza fchceniclus, Liz. Sy/. i. p. 911. 17-—Faun. Suee. N° 231.—Brun. 
251.— Muller, N° 254. — Kram. el. p. 371. N° 5.—Frifch. pl. 7.— 
Georgi Reife, p. 174. 
L’Ortolan de Rofeaux, Brif. orn. iii. p. 274.— Buf. oif. iv. p. 315-—Pi. enl. 
247. f. 2. (the male) 497. 2. (female) ; 
Greater Reed Sparrow, Raii Syn. p. 93. A. 3.—Will, orn. p. 269.—Albin. iis. 
pl. 51.—Br. Zool, i. N° 120.—Ar&. Zool. 
Br..Muf. Lev. Muf.. 
S I ZE of the Yellow Bunting: length five inches and: three: 
quarters. Bill brown > irides hazels. the head; throat, fore 
part of the neck, and breaft, black: on each fide of the neck a 
pale ftreak, which paffes backward, encirling the back part of the 
neck as a ring: the upper parts of the body and wings brownifh: 
red, with a ftreak of black down the fhafts: the lower part of 
_ the breaft and belly white, ftreaked with dufky on the fides: the: 
eight middle tail feathers black; the two: middle ones edged’ 
with rufous; the others only fo on the outer margins; the laft: 
but one white, except from the bafe to the middle of the inner 
web, which. is- black, and the fhaft wholly black; the outer one’ 
is alfo white, except at the bafe and tip, where-it is dufky ;. all of’ 
them: fharpifh: at the ends: the legs pale brown. 
In young birds the black on the head is mixed with brown *. 
The female has the -head and:neck partly of the fame colour as 
the upper parts of the body; otherwife is marked much like the 
male, though more dull.. F 
This fpecies frequents marfhy grounds. in England, efpecially, 
* «©-At the approach of winter the head changes to hoary, buton retern of. 
«s. {pring refumes its priftine jettynefs.”? Br. Zool. 
& where 
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