PLATE CLUI. 



Muller. «. 254-. 



Nozem. nederU VogeU /• 44-^ 



Ceorg. it* p, 114!, 



Embcriza capite nigro, maxillis rufis, torque albo, corporc rufo 



nigricante. Linn. Fn, Suec, 1. «. 211, Krafn, 

 El. p. 57. n, $. 



Hortulaijus arundinaceus. Bri/s, av» 3»p. 274. n, 5, 



PafTer arundinaceus. Ge/n, av. 652, 



Pafler torquatus f, arundinceus. Raii, Sjn. p. 93^ A, ^.-^WilL 



p. 196. 



Emerling Gunth. Nefi, u, Ey. t, 17. 



Ortolan de rofeaux. Buff, hijl, nat. 4. p. 5 1 5. ---PL EnL ^47. ^. 



(male) 477. 2. (female.) 

 Reed Bunting : Brit. Zool. n. ]20.— ^rc?. Zool. 2.p, 368. E' 



— Lath. Gen. Syn. S. p. 173. 9. — SuppL p. 157. 

 Gre,ater Reed 5parrow. Ray. av.p. 93. 3. — WilL Orn. p. 269.— 



Albin av. 2. /. 51. 



The Reed Bunting is a local bird : an inhabitant chiefly of marfhes 

 that abound in reeds : thefe, with the willow and other trees that 

 grow in watery places, are its favourite haunts, from the neighbour- 

 hood of which it is obferved to wander over the adjacent cultivated 

 places during the day time, and returning again to its neftling places in 

 tht; marOies before night, at leaft during the feafon of incubation, 

 Thefe birds fly low, feldom perching, except in hedges, or low 

 bufhes ; their ufual food confifls of grain of all kinds, corn efpeci- 

 ally, and infedts generally. The fruit of the reed in particular af- 



fordi 



