356 CIRL BUNTING. 



breast and belly ferruginous : back reddish, varie- 

 gated with black : wings cinereous at the base : 

 tail blackish ; the two middle feathers brown ; 

 the two outer ones half white. 



This species frequents the mountainous parts 

 of the south of Europe ; but is not found in Russia 

 or the west of Siberia : is very solitary, and has 

 obtained the appellation of Foolish Sparrow, as it 

 will go into any snare laid to entrap it : it is very 

 common, and has a trifling note not unlike the 

 words zip-zip. 



CIRL BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza Cirlus.) 



E. supra varia, subtus lutea, pectore macidato, superciliis luteris, 



rectricibus duabus extimis macula alba cuneata. 

 Bunting varied above, yellow beneath, with a spot on the breast, 



and line above the eyes yellow, and the two outer tail-feathers 



with a white wedge-shaped spot. 

 Emberiza Cirlus. — Lin.Syst. Nat. 1. 311. 12. — Gmel. Syst.Nat. 



1. 879. — Lath. hid. Orn. 1.401. 10. 

 Emberiza sepiaria. Briss. 3. 263. 2. 

 Le Bruant de haye. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 34;.— Buff. PI. 



Enl. 653./. 1.2. 

 Cirl Bunting. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 1Q0. 26. — Mont. Brit. Birds. 



\.—Mont. Sup. — Lin. Trans. 7« 276. 



The Cirl Bunting is six inches and a half in 

 length : beak of a blueish lead-colour above, pale 

 beneath : irides hazel : crown of the head, nape of 



