Class II. MOUNTAIN BUNTING. 445 



Iceland, the Fti^rot isles, Shetland, Orknies, 

 Scotland, and the Cheviot hills. They visit at 

 that season all parts of the northern hemi- 

 sphere, Prussia, Austria, and Sibiria.* They 

 arrive lean and return fat. In Austria they are 

 caught and fed with millet, and, like the Orto- 

 lan, grow excessively fat. In their flights, they 

 keep very close to each other, mingle most con - 

 fusedly together ; and fling themselves collect - 

 ively into the form of a ball, at which instant 

 the fowler makes great havoke among them, 



[The Emberiza nivalis is found in all the 

 highest mountains of Greece, Ed.] 



Emberiza montana. E. cine- Emberiza Montana. Gm.Lin. g, Mouii- 

 rea subtus flavescente-undu- 867. taikt. 



lata, capite castaneo, fronte Lesser Mountain-finch, or 

 saturatiore, gula alba, rec- Brambling. JVil. orn. 255. 



tricibus tribus extimis albis. Morton Northampt. 423. tah. 

 Lath. Ind. orn. 3Q8. id. ^S-J^g- 3. 



Syn. iii. l6j. Br. Zool. 113. 



VV E are obliged to borrow the following de- Descrip- 

 scription from the account of Mr. Johnson 

 transmitted to Mr. Ray ; having never seen 

 the bird. Mr. Ray suspected that it was only 

 a variety of the Tawny Bunting, but Mr. Mor- 



TION. 



* Kram. Austria, 372. Bell's Travels, i. I98, 



