REED SPARROW. 



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them, were in great abundance. This supply, however, rapidly de- 

 creased, but a few days of thaw occurring - , they were enabled to pursue 

 their migration southward."* 



In the hard winter of 1799, vast numbers of them resorted to the 

 west of England, where a sudden fall of snow, unusually deep in that 

 part, cut them off from all supply of food; and being- too weak to 

 attempt a passage over sea to a warmer climate, thousands of these, 

 and their companions, the fieldfares, were starved to death. 



It is said to breed in Norway and Sweden, and in that season to 

 sing not inferior to our throstle ; it makes a nest in some low bush in 

 the maple forests of the latter country, and lays six bluish-green eggs, 

 spotted with black. Mr. Bullock found one of them at Harris, in the 

 Hebrides. 



One in our collection, is of a cream-coloured brown, with all the 

 markings of a pale colour ; bill and legs almost white. 



RED-THROATED DIVER.— A name for the Cobble. 

 REED BUNTING.— A name for the Reed Sparrow. 

 REED FAUVETTE.— A name for the Sedge Bird. 

 REED SPARROW (Emberiza Schoeniclus, Linnaeus.) 



*Emberiza Schoeniclus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 311 . 17. — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 881. sp. 17 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 5. p. 402. sp. 13 — Emberiza arundinacea, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 881. 



— Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 403. var. 10 Passer Torquatis, etarundinaceus, Rail, Syn. 



p. 93. A. 3. — Will. p. 196 Briss. 3. p. 274. 5 Ortolan de Rosseaux, Buff. 



Ois. 4. p. 315.— Ib. pi. Enl. 247. f. 2. male, and pi. 477. f. 2. female Le Col- 



queluche, Buff. Ois. 4. p. 320. male. — Bruant de Roseau, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 

 1. p. 307 — Der Rhorhammer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 269 — Meyer, Tass- 

 chenb. Deut. 1. p. 181.— Frisch, t. 7. f. 1. A. B. — Reed Bunting/Br. Zool. 

 No. 120.— Arct. Zool. 2. p. 368. E. — Albin, 2. t. 51.— Lath. Syn. 8. p. 173.— 



Ib. Supp. p. 157.— Lewin's Br. Birds, 2. t. 75 Hayes' Br. Birds, t. 35. — 



Mont. Orn. Diet. v. 2 Bewick's Br. Birds, p. and t. 145. — Shaw's Zool. v. 9. 



p. 362. t. 59.— Wale. t. 14.— Selby, Illust. pi. 52. fig. 5. 6. 8vo. p. 242. 



YOUNG MALE, OR OLD FEMALE. 



Emberiza passerina, Lath. Ind. Orn. 3. p. 403. sp. 14 Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 871, — 



Passerine Bunting, Lath. Syn. 3. p. 196. 35. — Mountain Sparrow, Albin, v. 3. 

 t. 66. — Sperlings-ammer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 277. — Ib. Tasschenb. 

 Deut. p. 141. sp. 9. 



Provincial. — Water Sparrow. Black-headed Bunting. Chink. 



Black Bonnet. * 



This is a common bird upon marshes, the edges of rivers, and other 

 places favourable for reeds and aquatic herbage. The bill is dusky ; 

 irides hazel ; the head, chin, and throat, black ; at the corner of the 

 mouth commences a white ring, which grows broader behind the ears, 

 and encircles the head ; the breast and belly white ; the sides grey, 

 marked with a few dark brown strokes ; the back is black, deeply bor- 

 dered with reddish-brown, interspersed with grey, which grows more 

 conspicuous towards the rump ; quill feathers and coverts of the pri- 



