360, 



REED BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza Schoenichis.) 



E. capite nigro, cor pore griseo nigroque, rectricibus extimis ma- 

 cula alba cuneiformi. 



Bunting with a black head, black and grey body, the outer tail- 

 feathers with a wedge-shaped white spot. 



Emberiza Schoeniclus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1.311. 17. — Lin. Faun. 

 Suec. 231. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 881. — Lath Ind: Om. 1.403. 

 13. 



Passer torquatus, seu arundinaceus. Briss. 3. 274. 5. 



Ortolan de roseaux. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 315. — Buff. PI. 

 Enl. 247- 2. male. 4JJ. 2. female. 



Reed Bunting. Pen. Brit. Zool. 120. — Pen. Arct. Zool. 1. 368. 

 E. — Albin. Birds. 2. 51. — Levoin. Brit. Birds. 2. /5. — Lath. 

 Gen. Syn. 3. 173. 9. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 157. — Mont. Brit. 

 Birds. 1. — Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 145. 



The Black-headed, or Reed, Bunting is about 

 the size of the Yellow-hammer : its hides are hazel : 

 the head, throat, fore-part of the neck, and breast 

 black ; divided by a white line from each corner 

 of the beak, passing downwards and meeting on 

 the back part of the neck, which it nearly encircles : 

 upper parts of the body and wings reddish brown* 

 each feather with a black streak down the middle : 

 under parts white, with brownish streaks on the 

 sides : quills dusk}', margined with brown : rump 

 and upper tail-coverts blueish ash-colour, mixed 

 with brown : two middle tail-feathers black, with 

 pale brown edges ; two outer ones almost white, 

 the ends tipped with brown, and the bases black; 



