MEADOW liUXTTXG. 
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E. da, as ■will be seen by reference to iny specific 
diagnosis of that bird. 
Naumann concludes bis account of tire Meadow 
Bunting tlius: — “The Zipainmer, from its confiding 
nature is easily shot. They may be drawn in flocks 
by the Yellowhammer, as a decoy, and thus be cap- 
tured in great numbers, so that in France they have 
received the name of Fool. They are very good eating; 
they rejoice us with their song, destroy pernicious 
insects, and do no damage.” 
The adult male in its breeding plumage has the 
head and neck bluish grey, with two black bands 
along the sides of the vertex, and two other narrower 
bands of the same colour, one of which passes through 
the Ime of the eye, and the other forming a moustache; 
these lines unite, in the parotid region. The upper 
parts are bright russet, varied by longitudinal black 
stria? ; rump chesnut red; the throat is white; neck 
and chest delicate bluish grey; the rest of the under 
parts are russet red, brighter on the sides of the chest 
and flanks. AFings marked with two narrow whitish 
bands; wing coverts colour of the back; primaries 
blackish, bordered with russet; tail black, with the 
middle feathers bordered with russet, and the two 
most CACternal marked with a large white patch on the 
internal Avebs. Beak blackish above, grey below; feet 
and his brown. 
The female has the head, nape of the neck, and 
body varied Avith russet and black; rump and under 
tail coverts bright russet; inferior parts russet red, 
Avith the throat Avhitish; front of the neck and chest 
shaded Avith dull grey, and spotted with brown; flanks 
of a deeper russet, and more or less spotted Avith 
russet broAvn. 
