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26. 
CIRL B. 
Descriprion. 
FEMALE. 
Prack AND 
MANNERS. 
BCs, Nie Tae Nee eS 
‘Emberiza Cirlus, Lin. Sy#.i. p. 311- 12.—Olin. uc. pl. in p. so. 
Le Bruant de Haye, Brif. orn. ili. p. 263. 2.—Buf. oif-iv. p. 347.—Pl. ent. 
653. f. 1. 2. 
Cirlus, or Zivolo, Raii Syn. p. 93. 4.—Will, orn. p. 269. 3.—Olin. ue. pl. in 
pe 50: 
IZE of a Yellow-hammer: length fix inches and a quarter. 
Bill cinereous brown: the head olive green, with a dufky 
line down the fhaft of each feather: fide of the head yellow, 
with a dafh of black between the bill and eye, and fome mark- 
ings of black on the ears : the chin is alfo black, paffing a little 
backwards: the hind part of the neck, back, and rump, brown ; 
the feathers dufky in the middle: the under parts, from the chin, 
are yellow ; the breaft inclining to brown, and a few dufky ftreaks- 
on the fides of the body: acrofs the throat a yellow band: the 
tail is brown, edged with grey, the outer feather with white, and 
has alfo a {pot of white on the inner web for half the length ; the 
outermoft but one has alfo a fpot of white in the fame place, 
but of a much fmaller fize; the fhape a little forked: the legs 
yellowifh. 
The female is not unlike the male on the upper parts: the 
under are yellow, ftreaked with dufky, and inclining to white at 
the chin and vent: in fome the breaft inclines to green. 
Thefe birds are found only in the warmer parts of France and 
Italy, and frequent newly ploughed lands, feeding on grain, 
worms, and infects, which they pick out of the ground : are often 
found among flocks of Chaffinches, and their note is a little like 
thofe birds, not unlike the words z7, zi; are eafily tamed, and 
now and then kept in cages. Said to live fix years *. 
i & Olina. 
5 Emberiza 
