302 BUNTING. 



which it bears some resemblance, especially the female. These 

 birds pair in April, and begin laying early in May : the note is 

 similar to that of the Yellow Bunting, but shorter, not so shrill, and 

 the latter part not drawn out to such a length. It remains in the 

 places abovementioned during the winter, and does not appear at all 

 gregarious, nor has it been discovered elsewhere. 



10.— GIBRALTAR BUNTING. 



LENGTH seven inches; breadth ten. Bill blue; head olive, 

 streaked with black ; a bright yellow line above and below the eye ; 

 chin iron-grey, throat and fore neck bright clear yellow, middle of the 

 neck ash-colour, tinged with green ; hind part of the neck and rump 

 greenish olive ; back, scapulars, and greater wing coverts rusty red, 

 streaked with black ; quills dark brown, slightly edged with yellow; 

 tail long, and forked ; the outer feather brown, edged with white on 

 the outer, and a long white, wedge-shaped, spot on the inner web ; 

 the rest brown ; the two middle ones pale brown, narrow, and sharp- 

 pointed ; legs amber-colour, claws black. 



This appears, at the same time and place, with the Cirl Bunting, 

 at Gibraltar. — Mr. White, on whose authority I write this, seems to 

 think it distinct, if not an immature bird of the Cirl Species. 



11.— FOOLISH BUNTING. 



Emberiza Cia, Ind. Orn. i. 402. Lin. i. 310. Gm. Lin. i. 878. Kramer, 371. 3. 



Faun.Arag.8Q} Borowsk. iii. 150. Ndiurf. xiii. 199 ? Shaw's Zool. ix. 353. 



Tern. Man. a" Orn. 187. Id. Ed. ii. 315. 

 Emberiza pratensis, Bris. iii. 266. Id. 8vo. i. 383. 

 ■ — barbata, Scop. i. No. 210. 



Cirlus stultus, Raii, 94. Will. 198. Faun. Helvet. 



