GPvANIVOE^. 
Famihj FRINGILLIDuE. ( Bonaparte.) 
Genus Emberiza. f LinncBUS.) 
MARSH BUNTING. 
Emberiza palustris. 
Emberiza palustris, 
“ pyrrhuloides, 
“ Caspia, 
SchcBiiicula pyrrhidoides, 
Bruant des Marais, 
Sumpfammer, 
Passera di padule, 
Savi. Bonapaete. Temminck. 
SCHINZ. SCHLEGEL. 
Pallas. 
Meneteies. 
Bonapaete. 
Of the Feench. 
Of the Gteemans. 
Savi. 
Specific Characters. — Beak short, thick, and strong, the upper 
mandible curved; as broad at the base as long. Bump grey, 
and marked vith brown; under tail coverts white; primaries 
slightly bordered with russet, the first being shorter than the 
fourth. Length of a young male sent) me by Mr. Gould, seven 
inches; from carpus to tip three inches and a fifth; beak three- 
tenths of an inch; tarsus one inch. 
The jMarsli Bunting is an inhabitant of the south 
of Europe, being found especially in the south of 
France, Italy, and Sicily. 
It was at first described as a distinct species by 
Savi, in his “Ornitologia Toscana.” Temminck doubted 
whether it was distinct from E. sclimiiculus , in any- 
VOL. III. 
