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MOUNTAIN BUNTING. 



the last, never removing by day from her perch 

 but to feed, but by candle-light was continually 

 running about the bottom of the cage, in the man- 

 ner of a Lark : when alarmed, she uttered a mono- 

 tonous chirp. 



In the last edition of Pennant's British Zoology, 

 this and the preceding species are brought toge- 

 ther, the former as the winter, and the latter as 

 the summer plumage : but the circumstance of the 

 Tawny Bunting being always taken in Devonshire 

 during the winter seems to contradict the asser- 

 tion, however well founded in fact it may appear. 



MOUNTAIN BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza montana.) 



E. cinerea, subtus flavescente-undidata, capite castaneo fronte sa- 

 turatiore, gula alba, rectricibus tribus extimis albis. 



Cinereous Bunting, beneath waved with yellowish ; head ches- 

 nut, darkest in front ; throat white ; the three outer tail-fea- 

 thers white. 



Emberiza montana. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. S67. — Lath. Ind. Orri. 

 1. 39S. 3. 



Mountain Bunting. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 123.— Lath. Gen. Syn. 

 3. 165. 3. — Mont. Brit. Birds. 1. — Mont. Sup. 



The male of this bird Mr. Montagu describes 

 as follows : ci Beak yellow, with the point dusky : 

 the forehead, and part of the crown, chesnut, gra- 

 dually decreasing backwards, becoming only a 

 tinge of that colour on the hind head: on the 



