242 PASSERES. EMBERIZA. Bunrtine. 
rous birds that are, during the inclement season, constant in- 
Food. truders on the farmer’s stack-yard.—'Their food consists of 
grain and other farmaceous seeds, but rarely of insects and 
worms. They are to be met with throughout the greater 
part of Europe. 
PriateE 52. Fig. 2. The male bird, of the natural size. 
General Head, neck, and upper part of the breast gamboge-yellow, 
descrip- ; : : 
ee more or less varied with olive-green. Back and scapu- 
Male. lars yellowish-brown, inclining to oil-green ; the centres 
of the feathers being blackish-brown, passing into orange- 
brown. Wing-coverts and secondaries blackish-brown, 
deeply edged with brownish-orange. Greater quills 
black, edged with gamboge-yellow. Rump _brownish- 
orange, margined with greyish-white. The two outer 
tail-feathers on each side having a large white cone- 
shaped spot on the inner web; the rest being brownish- 
black, edged with yellow. Belly and under tail-co- 
verts gamboge-yellow ; the sides more or less streaked 
with brownish-orange. Legs and toes yellowish-brown. 
Fig. 3. The female, natural size. 
Female. 'The female bird has less of the gamboge-yellow on the head 
and neck, and the under parts are more clouded and 
streaked with brownish-orange. 
The young strongly resemble the female, till after the au- 
tumnal moult. ; 
_| Reed Bunting —Emberiza Scheeniculus, Linn. 
PLATE 52. Figs. 5, 6. 
Emberiza Scheeniculus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 311. 17.—Gmei. Syst. 1. p. 881. 
sp- 17.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 402. sp. 13. 
Emberiza arundinacea, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 881.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. p. 403. 
var. X. 
Passer torquatus, et arundinaceus, Raii, Syn. p. 93. A. 3.—Will. p. 196. 
—Briss. 3. p. 274. 5. 
Ortolan de Roseaux, Buff. Ois. v. 4. p. 315.—Id. Pl, Enl. 247. f 2. male, 
and pl. 477. f. 2. female. 
