294 BUNTING. 



In the female the head is less tawny ; the greater wing coverts 

 black, tipped with white ; the lesser black and grey mottled ; and 

 the quills less marked with white. 



This species in now and then met with in the northern parts of 

 England, but is by no means common. I have known it shot in 

 Kent twice, and have received a specimen, shot near Andover, in 

 Hampshire, March 15^ 1805 : they have occasionally been met with 

 both in Somersetshire and Devonshire. Colonel Montagu was in 

 possession of a living female,* taken near Plymouth, in the year 

 1807, in the winter. 



3.— MOUNTAIN BUNTING. 



Emberiza montana, Ind. Orn.\. 398. Gm.Liri.i. 867. Shaw's Zool.\x. 346. 

 Lesser Mountain Finch, or B rambling, Will. Engl. 255. Morton'' s Northampt. 423. 



pi. 13. 1. 

 Mountain Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. 165. Br. Zool. No. 123. Id.fol. 113. Id. 1812. 



1. p. 445. Mont. Om. Diet. $ Sup. 



BILL yellow, point black ; forehead dark chestnut : hindhead 

 and cheeks lighter ; hind part of the neck and back ash-coloured, 

 the latter spotted with black ; throat white ; breast and belly waved 

 with flame-colour; at the setting on of the wing grey; the five 

 first quills are blackish brown ; the rest white, dashed with brown 

 at the tips ; the three outer tail feathers white, the rest brown ; legs 

 black, the hind claw very long. The breast of the female darker 

 than in the male. 



This is said to be found in Yorkshire and Northamptonshire, and 

 distinct. Linnaeus has supposed all the above to be Varieties of one 

 species, in different changes of dress, owing to the season; Mr. 

 Pennant has thought to the contrary, and is supported by our late 

 friend Colonel Montagu ; who informs us, that these birds have been 

 shot on the Mendip Hills, in severe snowy weather, where they have 



* Om. Diet. Sf Sup. 



