BUNTING. 303 



Passeribus congener Aldr. Rati, 87. 2? Will. 182 ? 



Le Bniant Fou, ou de Pres, Buf. iv. 351. PL enl. 30. 2. 



Foolish Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. 191. Will. Engl. 250. iii. 



SIZE of the others. Bill dusky ; head ash-coloured, spotted 

 with black ; the rest of the upper parts rufous grey, down the shaft 

 of each feather blackish, inclining to rufous on the rump ; sides of 

 the head grey ; over the eyes a white streak ; through the eyes, from 

 the bill, a black one ; from the base of the under jaw a second; on 

 the jaw another, passing in the direction of it, and bending upwards; 

 the under parts of the body more or less rufous, almost white on the 

 throat ; breast inclining to cinereous ; quills dusky, edged with 

 white ; tail black, the two middle feathers brown, margined with 

 rufous ; the two outer ones white beyond the middle, the shafts black. 



The female said to have a cinereous line on the crown, varied on 

 the sides with ferruginous and black ; on the temples a white line, 

 and a black one from the eyes to the base of the jaws ; fore part of 

 the neck cinereous ; breast and belly ferruginous ; back reddish, 

 variegated with black; wings ash-colour at the base; tail blackish ; 

 the two middle feathers brown, the two outer half white. 



According to Scopoli, the male has the streaks on each side of 

 the jaw, and not the female. This species frequents the warmer 

 situations of Europe, chiefly in the mountainous parts, where it is 

 solitary ; is pretty common, and deservedly has gained the name of 

 Foolish Sparrow, from its being so foolishly tame, as to be caught 

 by any snare : its note trifling, not better than that of our Yellow 

 Bunting, and not unlike it, pronouncing the words, zi, zi, or zip, zip ; 

 found on the rocky mountains in the South of Siberia, from the 

 River Jeneise to the Lake Baikal, but neither in Russia, nor to the 

 West of Siberia. 



Mr. White observes, that they come into Gibraltar in March and 

 April, and build among the shrubs, in the hanging cliffs of the 

 rocks; have four young, which are fledged about the middle of 

 May ; the young are all over a dusky olive, spotted with dark brown, 



