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G11ANIV0R.E. 



Family FRINGILLIDJE. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Emberiza. (Linnceus.J 



MAKSH BUNTING. 



Emberiza palustris. 

 Emberiza palastris, Savi. Bonaparte. Temminck. 



ScHINZ. SCHLEGEL. 



" pyrrlmloides, Pallas. 



Caspia, Menetries. 



Schcenicula pyrrliuloid.es, Bonaparte. 



Bruant des Marais, Of the French. 



Sumpfammer, Ojf the Germans. 



Passera di padule, Savi. 



Specific Characters. — Beak short, thick, and strong, the upper 

 mandible curved; as broad at the base as long. Eump grey, 

 and marked with brown; under tail coverts white; primaries 

 slightly bordered with russet, the first being shorter than the 

 fourth. Length of a young male sent me by Mr. Gould, seven 

 inches; from carpus to tip three inches and a fifth; beak three- 

 tenths of an inch; tarsus one inch. 



The Marsh Bunting is an inhabitant of the south 

 of Europe, being found especially in the south of 

 France, Italy, and Sicily. 



It was at first described as a distinct species by 

 Savi, in his "Ornitologia Toscana." Teinminck doubted 

 whether it was distinct from E. schceniculus , in any- 



