MAKSII liUN'riXG. 
tlie liabits of tlie two birds prove them to bo of 
different species. E. ncJicenicAilus lives among bushes, 
and always remains on ground far from water, feeding 
upon seeds; while E. is always found estab- 
lished near water, climbing up the reeds, and feeding 
on the muddy banks of ponds. Then the two species 
are never found mixed together in the same flock. 
I have killed as many as ten in the same flock 
without finding one schceniculus, and, what is worthy 
of note, without in such a number finding one with 
the beak of the same size and form as in that bird, 
which would naturally have been the case, had they 
been varieties of the same species.” 
At page S26 of the third volume, we have also the 
following interesting account of the habits of this bird: 
— ‘‘The Black -headed Bunting is found in Tuscany 
during the summer, inhabiting watery places covered 
with reeds. A great number hatch in the marshes of 
Castiglione, so that in crossing the intricate passages 
made by the fishermen cutting the reeds, which rise 
so high as to exclude all but a small portion of sky, 
the low moaning of the wind is uninterrupted, except 
by the distant voice of the Tarabugio, (Bittern,) which 
sounds shrill • over the dead water, or the continual 
croaking of the Passcra di Padide, which then remains 
obstinately hidden. It has a voice similar to the 
Rena esculenta, (frog,) but it is even more sonorous.” 
Count Miihle, in his “Bcitraege zur Ornithologie 
Griechlands,” says, “ Emheriza pyrrlmloidcs is considered 
to be a distinct species from E. schceniculus . All the 
proportions are larger and stronger, the head much 
thicker and longer, the beak peculiarly arched, unlike 
that of any other species, the colouring of the plumage 
is much brighter, and in broader masses, the black on 
