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ORD. III. GEN. VII. BUNTING. 



SPE. II. REED BUNTING. 



PI. 82. 



Emberiza fchoeniclas. Lin. Syft. L p. 3 1 1. 

 L'Ortolan de Rofeaux. Brif. Orn. III. p. 274. 



In this fpecies the bill is of a dark horn colour : the eyes are dark brown : 

 the head and throat black, with a line of buff colour from the beak to the eyej 

 and a ring of white round the neck : the breafl and rump grey : belly and un- 

 der parts white: upper parts of the body reddifh brown, with a ftreak of black 

 down the Ihafts of each feather: moulders rich chefnut colour ; greater and 

 fcfs wing coverts black, with a broad edge of pale chefnut colour j quills dull 

 black: tail brown black, with pale buff edges to the feathers: legs reddifh, 

 claws large and black. 



The young males have not the white ring round the neck, and their head is 

 brown black. The females are not darker on the head than on the upper part 

 of the body, which is of a dull brown colour, with a few dark fpots or ftreaks; 

 and the under part is pale brown. They make their neft on low bufhes, near 

 reeds, and fometimes the latter neft is made on the reeds, when they afford 

 fufficient cover to hide it. They lay four eggs, and are conftant refidents in 

 the marfhes in every part of England, where reeds grow. The egg is repre- 

 fented PI. XIX. Fig. 2. F 



