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Strillozo. Olina, 44. 



Korn Larkor. Lin. it, f can. 292. tab. 4. 



Cimbris Korn-Lasrke. Norveg. Knotter. Erun. 24J* 



Brafler. Kramer 372. 



Graue Ammer. Frijch. 1. 6. 



This fpecies continues with us the whole year : about the latter 

 end of harveft they collect together in flocks, and feparate again in 

 fpring : they feed on corn, oats, and moft other kinds of grain, 

 which they eafily bruife with the hard protuberance with which the 

 infide of the upper mandible is furnifhed. 



The female builds the neft among low bufhes, and lays five or fix 

 eggs ; fhe can fcarcely be diftinguilhed from the male, except by the 

 colour of her plumage, being fomewhat paler. Length fix inches 

 and an half. 



It is common in this country, though much lefs fo than the 

 Yellow-hammer, which alfo is a fpecies of the Bunting genus : they 

 are found in vaft numbers in Italy, in Germany, and in the fouthern 

 parts of Ruffia, Sweden and Denmark. — They are frequently fhotj 

 or taken in nets, and. fold for Larks, or Bunting Larks. 



Albin fays, " It Jings fitting upon the higheft twigs of trees or 

 fhrubs ;" but Latham obferves it has no Jong, only a fcream, or tre- 

 mulous kind of fhriek, three or four times repeated. 



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