RUSTIC BUNTING. 



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GRANIVOBJE. 



Family FRINGILLID^E. ( Bonaparte.) 



Genus Emberiza. (Linnaeus.) 



RUSTIC BUNTING. 



Emberiza rustica. 



Emberiza rustica, 



" lesbia, 



" borealis, 



Hypocentor rusticus, 

 Bruant rustique, 

 Feldammer, 

 Zigolo di Mitilene, 

 Le Mitilene de Provence, 



Pallas; Voy., vol. iii., p. 698, 1776, et 



Zoogr., t. 47, 2. 

 Naumann; Vog., t. 382, 1 & 2. 

 Gould; B. of E., pi. 177. 

 Latham; Ind., vol. i., p. 413. 

 Temminck, 1820. Bonaparte, 

 schinz. schlegel. degland. 

 Calvi; Cat. d'Ornith. di Geneva, p. 46. 

 Savi; Ornith. Tosc., vol. iii., p. 223. 

 Zetterstedt; Resa i Lappm., vol. i., p. 107. 

 Cabanis. 

 Of the French. 

 Of the Germans. 

 Savi. 

 Buffon. 



Specific Characters. — Region of the rump russet; primaries bordered with 

 russet, the first longer or as long as the third, the fourth shorter than the 

 third; a large elongated white spot on the two external tail feathers; beak 

 straight, awl-shaped, and slightly elevated at the point. Length nearly five 

 inches and two fifths. — Degland. 



There has been some confusion among the synonymes of this bird. 

 Bonaparte has made three species, namely, — E. rustica, Pallas, E. 

 lesbia, Gmelin, and E. provincialis, Gmelin. Schlegel makes only two 

 of the three, namely — E. rustica and E. fucata, including among the 



