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ORD. III. GEN. VII. BUNTING. 



SPE. III. COMMON BUNTING. 



PI. 83. 



Emberiza miliaria. Lin. Syft. I. p. 308. 

 Le Proyer. Brif. Orn. III. p. 292. 



The beak of this fpecies is horn colour : eyes dark brown : head, neck, back, 

 and moulders, olive brown, with a black dam down the middle of the feathers : 

 throat and breaft pale yellow brown, thick fet with black oblong fpots, largeft 

 en the breaft : the belly is dingy white : under fide of the tail pale grey: quills 

 dull black : tail a little forksd, middle feathers brown black, outermoft ones 

 white : legs pale brown, hin 1 claws, ftrong, fhort, and hooked. 



The female fcarcely differs from the male in colour or fize. 



This fpecies at firft fight greatly refembles the larks, and hence received the 

 name of bunting, as a fpurious lark, not having any fong, and being of a bitter 

 tafte in eating, the lark on the contrary a delicacy to eat, and moft delightful in 

 fong. It is a very common bird, and unites in large flocks in winter. It 

 builds in tufts of grafs, in dry places, fometimes on the fide of a bank or hedge, 

 and feeds moftly on grain and other feeds. It lays in general four or five eggs^ 

 for which fee PI. XIX. Fig. 3. 



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