438 ' CIRL BUNTING. Class IL 



of the same colors ; the rump of a rusty red ; 

 the quil feathers dusky, their exterior sides 

 edged with yellowish green ; the tail is a little 

 forked ; the middle feathers are bro^vn ; the 

 two middlemost edged on both sides with green ; 

 the others on their exterior sides only : the in- 

 terior sides of the two outmost feathers are 

 marked obliquely near their ends with white. 



It visits Italy the end of April, and quits it 

 in October, but many winter there. 



3 CiRL. Emberiza Cirlus. E. supra va- Luteae primum genus. Raii 

 ria, subtus lutea, pectore Syn. au. 93. 



niaculato, superciliis luteis, Le Bruant de Haye. Embe- 

 rectrlcibus duabus extimis riza seploria. Srisson, av. 



macula alba cuneato. Lath. ill. 263. Hist, d'ois. iv. 347. 



Ind. orn. 401. id. Syn. iii, PL Enl.653.f. 1.2. 



190. Bunting Cirl. Mo7itagu, orn. 

 E. Cirlus. Cm. Lin. ii. 879. diet. id. Lin, Tr. vii. 276. 



[THE discovery of the Cirl Bunting, as a 

 British bird, is due to that accurate ornitholo- 

 gist, George Montagu, esq. who first observed 

 it in Devonshire, in the year 1800, amongst 

 flocks of yellow buntings and chaffinches.* 

 Descrip- It is thus described by Dr. Latham. " Size 

 of a yellow-hammer ; length six inches and a 



TION. 



* Mr. Montagu afterwards found its nest with four eggs in the 

 stump of an old tree. Ed. : 



