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EMBEEIZA MILIARIA. 



(COMMON BUNTING.) 



Emberiza miliaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 308 (1766). 



Fringilla projer, P. L. S. Mull. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 164 (1776). 



Miliaria septentrionalis, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 291 (1831). 



Miliaria germanica, id. torn. cit. p. 292 (1831). 



Miliaria peregrina, id. torn. cit. p. 292 (1831). 



Miliaria europma, Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 290 (1837). 



Cynchramus miliaria, Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. & N. Am. p. 35 (1838). 



Spinus miliarius, Gray, List of Gen. of B. ii. p. 61 (1841). 



Cryptophaga miliaria, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 127 (1850). 



Citrinella miliaria, Gray, Hand-1. of B. ii. p. 113 (1870). 



Corn-Bunting, Bunting-Lark, English ; Golabhigean, Gaelic (II. /. Elwes) ; le Proyer, 

 French ; Strilozzo, Italian ; Ciciruni, Sicilian ; Triguero, Spanish ; Trigulirao, Portuguese ; 

 Duraisa, Maltese ; grau Ammer, German ; de grauwe Gors, Dutch ; Kornsparf, Swedish ; 

 Kornlcerke, BomlwrJce, in some places Knijtte and Stritte, Danish (A. Benzon) ; Prosiaiika. 

 Russian ; Potrzyszez, Polish. 



Figurce notabiles. 



Naum. Vog. Deutschl. v. Taf. 101 ; Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 433; Gould, B. of Eur. iii. p. 171 ; 

 Kjserb. Orn. Dan. tab. xxv. fig. 3 ; Schl. Vog. Nederl. pi. 153 ; Fritsch, Vog. Europ. 

 Taf. 19. fig. 21 ; Gould, B. of Gr. Br. pt. xxvi. ; Sundev. Svensk. Fogl. pi. vi. fig. 3. 



c? cestiv. supra griseo-brunnescens, plumis medialiter nigris : uropygio griseo-brunneo, fere unieolori : tectri- 

 cibus alarum dorso concoloribus, medianis paullo rufescentioribus, albo marginatis, majoribus fulvescente 

 limbatis : remigibus saturate brunneis, extiis fulvescente marginatis, secundariis latius : cauda brunnea, 

 fulvo marginatis et terminatis, rectrice extima pallidiore : loris et supercilio indistincto genisque 

 fulvescenti-albis, lineis parvis brunneis longitudinaliter striatis : regione auriculari brunnea, striis 

 nigricantibus notata : subtus fulvescenti-albus, hypochondriis paullo rufescentibus, gutture sparsim, 

 pectore magis, et bypochondriis distincte bruuneo striatis : subalaribus fulvescenti-albis, paullo griseo 

 variis : rostro rufescenti-corneo, mandibula, fere omnino flavicante : pedibus pallide brunneis. 



Juv. autumn, similis adultis sed magis oebraceus, vix rufescens : subtus ochraceus, maculis pectoralibus 

 obscurioribus, linearibus. 



Male in spring plumage. Above greyisb brown, the feathers blackish down the centre as in a Lark, those 

 on the crown more narrowly centred ; the rump almost entirely greyish brown, with very faint 

 indications of central black markings; scapulars and wing-coverts like the back, the median coverts 

 tipped with white, and also slightly tinged with rufous, the greater coverts externally edged with 

 fulvous; quills blackish brown, externally margined with buffy white, the secondaries far more 



