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of a group containing at least about thirty-seven species. They 

 are all Old-World Birds, mainly inhabitants of Asia and Aus- 

 tralia, though a few are African, as is the one which sometimes 

 reaches our shores. 



That handsome familiar little Bird the Chaffinch {Fringilla 



Kg. 111. 



The Eeed Bunting {Emberiza schceniohts). 



ccelebs) is a type of a very large group of Birds called Finches, to 

 vphich the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) also belongs, as 

 likewise does the curious Crossbill {Loxia curvirostra), the Vir- 

 ginia Nightingale (Oardinalis virginianus), and the luscious 

 Ortolan or G-reen-headed Bunting (Emberiza hortulana), and the 

 marsh-loving Eeed Bunting (Emberiza schceniclus'), but not 



