ras) 
Reev-Buntinc. PASSERES. EMBERIZA. 43 
Le Coqueluche, Buff: Ois. v. 4. p. 320. male. 
Bruant de Roseau, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 307. 
Der Rhorhammer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 269.—Meyer, Tasschenb. 
Deut. v. 1. p. 181.—Frisch. t. 7. f. 1. A. B. 
Reed-Bunting, Br. Zool. No. 120.—Arct. Zool. 2. p. 368. E.—Albin. 
2. t. 51.—Lath. Syn. 8. p. 173.—Id. Sup. p. 157.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 
2. t. 75. —Haye’s Br. Birds, t.35.—Mont. Ornith. Dict. v.s2.—Bewick’s 
Br. Birds, p. and t. 145.—Shaw’s Zool. v. 9. p. 362. t.59.—Walc. t. 14. 
Emberiza passerina, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 3. p. 403. sp. 14.—Gmei. Syst. 1. 
p- 871. Syn. of 
Passerine Bunting, Lath. Syn. 3. p. 196. 35. OU Et) 
Mountain Sparrow, Ald. v. 3. t. 66. Male, or 
Sperlings-ammer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 277.—Id. Tasschenb. | old Fe- 
Deut. p. 141. sp. 9. male. 
Provincial, Reed-Sparrow, Black-headed Bunting. 
This is a common bird upon marshes, the edges of rivers, Locality. 
and other places favourable for reeds and aquatic herbage. 
By many authors the nidification of this bird has been con- 
founded with that of the sedge-warbler (Sylvia Phragmites), 
a species inhabiting the same localities. ‘The nest, however, 
differs both in fabric and situation, being generally built in a 
low bush, or tuft of grass, and not suspended between the 
stems of the reeds, just above the surface of the water, as I 
have before described in the account cf the sedge-warbler. 
The materials are also in some degree different ; consisting, 
in the instance now before us, of dried grasses and moss, 
lined with hair. .The eggs are four or five in number, of a 
greyish-white, with a pinkish tinge, spotted and veined with 
chocolate-red, and very similar to those of the chaffinch. 
Some authors have again confounded.the two species in ano- 
ther respect, gifting the reed-bunting with a sweet and varied 
song, often poured forth during the still hour of night, thus 
robbing our little warbler of the praise justly due to its un- 
wearied exertions. 
The song (Gf it may be so called) of the present bird, is 
even more monotonous and uninteresting than that of the 
yellow hammer or the common bunting, and is uttered, in 
the breeding-season, during the greater part of the day, from 
the very top of some bush, a little elevated above the sur- 
rounding herbage.—The food of this species consists of the Food. 
seeds of reeds and other aquatic plants, which is augmented, 
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