BUNTING. 309 



B. — Emberiza arundinacea, Gin. Lin.'u 881. S. G: Gmel.lt. 175. 



This bird is said to be white, with obscure quills, and an even 

 tail, the outer feather of which is white, the next half black, half 

 white. 



Inhabits Astrachan. Probably a Variety of the Reed Bunting; 

 Buffon also mentions a bird by the name of Coqueluche,* which 

 came from Siberia, and seems to differ from our Reed Bunting, only 

 in having a short stripe of white near the gape of the bill, instead of 

 passing downwards on each side of the neck. 



15— PASSERINE BUNTING. 



Emberiza passerina, Ind.Orn.i. 403. Gm. Lin.'i. S71. Pall. It. i. 456. f Shaw's 



Zool.ix. 359. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 182. Id. Ed.n. 309. 

 Passerine Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. 196. 



SIZE of the last. Head dirty ferruginous ash-colour ; some of 

 the feathers on the crown black ; behind the eye a pale streak, and 

 on each side of the chin a white line ; back grey brown, the middle 

 of each feather black ; fore part of the neck black, the feathers with 

 pale margins ; the rest of the under parts cinereous white, blotched 

 with pale ferruginous on the sides ; wings ferruginous, the margins 

 of the feathers yellowish ; tail a little forked, the two middle feathers 

 margined with ferruginous ; the two outer obliquely black and white, 

 divided longitudinally, the exterior one almost to the base, and the 

 last but one only to the middle; but the shafts black in both, and 

 dilated towards the tip ; legs pale brown. The female like the male, 

 but wants the black head and chin. 



Inhabits Russia ; seen in great plenty along the Jaick, in the 

 autumn, migrating in pairs to the south ; is pretty tame, and the 

 flesh accounted excellent : thought by M. Temminck to be no other 

 than the Reed Bunting, and if so, is probably the female. 



* Id. iv. 320. f According to the Fn. Groenl. p. 119. this is the same with the 



Lapland Finch. 



