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CIRL BUNTING. 



breast and belly ferruginous : back reddish, varie- 

 gated with black : wings cinereous at the base : 

 tail blackish ; the two middle feathers brown ; 

 the two outer ones half white. 



This species frequents the mountainous parts 

 of the south of Europe ; but is not found in Russia 

 or the west of Siberia : is very solitary, and has 

 obtained the appellation of Foolish Sparrow, as it 

 will go into any snare laid to entrap it : it is very 

 common, and has a trifling note not unlike the 

 words zip-zip. 



CIRL BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza Cirlus.) 



E. supra varia, subtus lutea, pectore maculato, superciliis luteris 



rectricibus duabus extimis macula alba cuneata. 

 Bunting varied above, yellow beneath, with a spot on the breast 



and line above the eyes yellow, and the two outer tail-feather 



with a white wedge-shaped spot. 

 Emberiza Cirlus. — Lin.Syst. Nat, 1. 311. 12.— Gmel. Syst.Na 



1. 879.— Lath, Ind. Orn. 1.401. 10. 

 Emberiza sepiaria. Briss. 3. 263. 2. 



Le Bruant de haye. Buff, Hist. Nat, Ois. 4. 34 7.— Buff. PI. 



Enl, 653./. 1.2. 

 Cirl Bunting. — Lath, Gen. Syn. 3. 1Q0. 26. — Mont. Brit. Birds. 



1. — Mont, Sup. — Lin. Trans. J. 2?6, 



The Cirl Bunting is six inches and a half in 

 length : beak of a blueish lead-colour above, pale 

 beneath : irides hazel : crown of the head, nape of 



