496 EMBERIZID A. 
bridge in the winter of 1800, among flocks of Yellow 
Buntings and Chaffinches, from which he obtained several 
specimens of both sexes. In the followimg summer these 
birds were found breeding in several localities on the coast 
of Devonshire, and a detailed account of their habits, and 
the mode by which the young were successfully reared, was 
communicated to the Linnean Society by Colonel Mon- 
tagu, and was published in the seventh volume of the Trans- 
actions of the Society. 
The Cirl Bunting is generally found on the coast, and 
does not often appear to go far inland. In some of its 
habits it resembles the Yellow Bunting, last described, the 
male frequently singing from an upper branch of a tree, his 
song resembling that of the yellow bird, but delivered 
rather more rapidly, and without the long fmishing note. 
The female has but a single call-note. They generally 
build in furze, or some low bush ; the nest is composed of 
dry stalks, with a little moss, and lined with long hair and 
fibrous roots: the eggs are four or five in number, of a dull 
white, tinged with blue, streaked and speckled with dark 
liver brown; the length ten lines, by eight lines in breadth. 
The young are hatched in thirteen or fourteen days, and 
are supplied by the parent birds with insect food ; when 
reared by hand, Colonel Montagu found grasshoppers most 
serviceable, with the addition of uncooked meat finely 
divided. Some years since, several old birds were ob- 
served, near Brading in the Isle of Wight, to feed con- 
stantly on the berries of the woody nightshade, Solanum 
dulcamara ; and a paste made of these berries, mixed with 
wheat flour and fine gravel, proved excellent food for 
some of their young birds, which were reared without 
difficulty. 
Mr. Blyth has published in the second volume of the 
