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where he may be observed, with the head crouched, every now and 

 then uttering a tremulous kind of shriek, three or four times repeated. 

 At the end of harvest they unite into flocks, and remain so for the 

 most part during the winter, when they are shot in numbers, 

 or caught in nets; and from their similar plumage are sold for 

 Larks ; and, indeed, by the better informed, they often pass by the 

 name of Bunting Larks : by some called Ebb. Though these birds 

 remain the whole year in England, yet we find them migratory on 

 the Continent: in France are rarely seen in winter, departing with 

 the Swallow; and are said to be more plentiful about Rome than 

 elsewhere : they are common in Germany, the southern parts of 

 Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, but not in Siberia : supposed to 

 migrate as far south as Barbary at least, for it is the most common 

 species in Gibraltar, where it is perennial ; frequenting not only the 

 open surrounding country there, but every part of the hill and rock; 

 congregates in great flocks in spring, and is often mistaken by the 

 sportsman for the Lark, especially the Calandra ; but it differs in 

 wanting the black on the sides of the neck, and in having the pro- 

 minence within the upper mandible in a remarkable degree, which 

 in the Calandra there is no trace of. 



14— REED BUNTING. 



Emberiza Schoeniclus, Ind.Orn.i. 402. Lin.i. 311. Faun. Suec. No. 231. Gm, Lin. 



i. 881. Brun. No. 251. 232. Muller, No. 254. Kramer, 371. 5. Frisch, t. 7. 



Georgi, 174. Sepp, Vog. t. p. 81. Faun. Helvet. Shaw's Zool. ix. 362. pi. 50. 



Tern. Man. d'Orn. 181. Id. Ed. ii. 307. 

 Passer torquatus, seu arundinaceus, Rail, 93. A. 3. Will. 196. Bris. iii. 274. Id. 8vo. 



i. 3S6. Borowsk. iii. 152. Gerin. iii. t. 336. 

 Der Rohrsperling, Naturf. xvii. 92. Id. xxii. 140. 

 Emmerling, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. 1. 17— upper figure. 

 Ortolan de roseaux, Buf. iv. 315. PL enl. 247. 2 — male. 497. 2 — female. Hist. Prov. 



i. 494. 



