PLATE CLIir 



EMBERIZA SCHOENICULUS. 



REED SPARROW^ 

 Passeres. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill conic; mandibles receding from each other from the baSfe 

 iclownwards, the lower with the fides narrowed in, the upper part 

 with a callofity or hard knob within. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



SYNONYMS. 



Head black ; body grey and black ; outmofl tail-feathers with a 

 white cuneate fpot. 



Emberiza Schceniclus : capite nigro, corpore grifeo nigroquc, 



re^lriubus extimis alba cuneiforrai. Linn, Fn» 

 Suec, ^3\,'-'SyJl, 1.311. ll.^GmeL Syjl. Nat. 

 I, p. 881. 



JBrunn. Orn, n, 2« 25 1 



Mulkr, 



