MARSH BUNTING. 



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GRANIVOR^. 



Family FRINGILLIDJE. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Emberiza. (Linnceus.) 



MAESH BUNTING. 



Emberiza pyrrhuloides . 



Emberiza pyrrhuloides, 

 palustris, 



caspia, 



schceniculus var. /?., 



Pallasii, 



schceniculus var. minor, 



polaris, 

 Schcenicula pyrrhuloides, 

 Brua?it des Marat's, 

 Sumpfammer, 

 Passera di padule, 



Pallas; Zoog., t. 49, 1. 

 Bonaparte; Faun. Ital. 

 Savi. Bonaparte. Temmtnck. 



SCHINZ. Sd-ILEGEL. BREE, I St. ed. 



Menetries. 



Pallas. 



Cabanis. 



MlDDENDORFF. 

 MlDDENDORFF. 



Bonaparte. 

 Of the French. 

 Of the Germans. 

 Savi. 



Specific Characters. — Beak short, thick, and strong, the upper mandible 

 curved ; as broad at the base as long. Rump grey, and marked with brown ; 

 under tail coverts white; primaries slightly bordered with russet, the first 

 being shorter than the fourth. Length of a young male sent me by Mr. 

 Gould, seven inches; from carpus to tip three inches and a fifth; beak 

 three tenths of an inch; tarsus one inch. 



The Marsh Bunting is an inhabitant, of the south of Europe, being 

 found especially in the south of France, Italy, and Sicily. 



It was at first described as a distinct species by Savi, in his 

 "Ornitologia Toscana," but had been previously figured by Pallas, in 



