GRANIVGPwE. 



Family FRINGILLIDJE. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Embeiuza. (Linnceits.) 



MEADOW BUNTING. 



Emberiza cia. 



Emleriza cia, LinNjEtts, S. 1ST., and Authors. 



" pratensir, Brisson, Ornith., vol. iii, p. 266, 

 1760. 



" lotharingica, GmeliN; Syst., 1788. 



" harbata, Scopoli. 



Cirlus stiiltus, Aldrovandtts; Ornith, vol. ii, p. 858. 



Bruant fou on de fris, Of the French. 



Zipammer, Of the Germans. 



Zigolo Muciatto, Savi. 



Ortolan de Lorraine, Buffon. 



Foolish and Lorrain Hunting, Latham. 



Specific Characters. — Head grey, longitudinally marked with, 

 black; rump russet red; primaries edged on the outside with 

 grey, first and sixth of equal length, and considerably shorter 

 than the second, third, fourth, and fifth, which are nearly of 

 the same length, the third • being the longest in the wing. 

 Length six inches and a fifth; carpus to tip three inches and 

 a fifth; beak half an inch; tarsus four-fifths of an inch; tail 

 three inches and a fifth. 



The Meadow Bunting is an inhabitant of a great 

 part of the south of Europe, more especially Italy, 



