BUNTING. 305 



13.— COMMON BUNTING. 



Emberiza miliaria, Lid. Orn. i. 402. Lin. i. 308. Faun. suec. No. 228. (Calandra.) 

 It. Scan. 292. t. 4. Gm. Lin. i. 868. Muller, No. 251. Kramer, 371. 6. Frisch, 

 t. 6. Faun. Arag. S6. Borowsk. iii. 149. Jamb. Helvet. Shaw's Zool. ix. 360. 

 pi. 5S. Tern. Man. a" 0m. 180. Id. Ed. ii. 307. 



Calandra, Mas & fcem. Brun. No. 247. 248. 



C3-nchramus, Bris. iii. 292. Jd. Svo. i. 390. Roman. Orn. i. 155. t. 24. 1. Genre, iii. 

 t. 353. 2. 



Calandra, Will. 154. §. VI. Jd. £«gZ. 208. §. VI. 



Emberiza alba, Rail, 93, A. 1. WW. 195. t. 40. Klein, 91. t Id. Stem. 18, t. 18. 

 f. 5. a. b. 



Strilozzo, Olin. t. p. 44. Zinnan. Uov. 63. t. 9. f. 55. Cett. Uc. Sard. 192. 



Le Proyer, Buf. iv. 355. pi. 16. PL enl. 233. Hist. Prov. i. 495. 



Gerst-Ammer, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. t. 70, 



Die graue-Ammer, Naturf. xvii. 91. Beckst. Dents, iii. 362. 



Common Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. 171. Br. Zool. No. 118. Id.fol. 111. t. W. f.7. Id. 

 1812. i. p. 435. Arct.Zool. ii. 360. B. ^/6i«,ii. pi. 50. Cotfms, Bir^, pi. 9. f. 8. 

 pi. 7. f. 2. Bolton's Birds, pi. 15. 16. Bewick, Birds, pi. p. 141. Wale. Birds, 

 ii. pi. 213. Donov. Birds, pi. 50, Pult. Cat. Dors. A. 11. Orn. Diet. Sf Sup. 



LARGER than the Yellow Bunting. Bill and legs pale brown ; 

 plumage in general pale olive brown, with a blackish dash down the 

 middle of each feather, which is fringed on the edge with rufous ; 

 under parts plain yellowish white, dashed on the sides with dusky ; 

 quills and tail dusky, with yellowish edges, the last a trifle forked. 

 The female is smaller than the male. 



This is common in England, but much less so than the Yellow 

 Bunting, and in winter unites into large flocks ; the female makes a 

 nest, three or four inches from the ground, on a tuft of decayed 

 herbage, or dead plants, composed of straw, and lined with fibrous 

 roots, dry grass, or long hairs; and lays four or five dirty white eggs, 

 spotted and veined with reddish-brown and ash-colour, weighing one 

 drachm ; during the time of the hen's sitting, the male entertains her 

 with his scream, for we will not call it a song, sitting on some bare, 



and often projecting part of the branch, of an adjacent tall tree, 



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