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28. 
BLACK-FACED 
B. 
DESCRIPTIONe 
B76. NORA. Neves. 
Briffon’s bird is ftreaked with black beneath, which I do not 
fee in the P/. enl.; and in this laft figure there is a line of black 
through the eyes. 
This fpecies frequents the warmer parts of Eurcpe, and is found 
chiefly in the mountainous parts *, where it is folitary : it is pretty 
common, and defervedly has gained the name of Fook/h Sparrow, 
from its being fo foolifhly tame as to be caught by any {nare ; 
and its note is trifling, not better than our Yellow B. and not 
unlike it, pronouncing the words zi, 27, or zip, zip t. It is met 
with on the rocky mountains in the fouth of Sibiria, from the 
river Feneife to the lake Baikal, but neither in Rufia nor the wett 
of Sibiria t. 
Emberiza quelea, Lin. Syf. i. p. 310. 8. 
Le Moineau a bec rouge de Senegal, Bri/. ora. iii. p. 110, 19. pl. 6. f. fits 
Buf. cif. ive p. 485.—Pi. enl. 183. f. 2. 
Lev. Mu/. 
IZE of the Houfe Sparrow: length four inches three quar- 
ters. The bill ftout and thick, like that of the Grefbeak 
genus, but the formation is truly that of the Bunting ; the co- 
lour of it red: the forehead, throat, and cheeks, are black: the 
reft of the head and upper parts rufous grey: the middle of the 
feathers on the back and upper parts dufky : the under parts pale 
‘rufous, and plain, inclining to white on the’ breaft and belly: 
quills and tail blackifh, with cinercous margins: legs flefh-co- 
doured. 
* Kramer fays, in the fields, low fhrubs, and borders of woods. 
+ Itis called Cia felvatica, or Cia montanina, by the Genoyfe —Willughly. 
a Mr. Pennant. f 
g Thea 
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