CIRL BUNTING. 



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the neck, and upper part of the breast, fine olive 

 green, the first streaked with dusky: from the 

 upper mandible through the eye a dusky line ; 

 above and beneath which is a bright yellow one : 

 throat black, tinged with brown, running into a 

 bar under the yellow on the cheek ; beneath this 

 is a beautiful bright yellow gorget : back and 

 scapular fine chesnut brown, the former marked 

 with dusky streaks, and the feathers margined with 

 olive : lesser wing-coverts olive green : greater co- 

 verts dusky, with their outer webs chesnut brown : 

 primaries dusky, edged with green on the outer 

 webs : secondaries chesnut, dusky down the mid- 

 dle : rump olive brown : upper tail-coverts inclining 

 to chesnut : across the breast a band composed of 

 chesnut and yellow : belly and under tail-coverts 

 yellow, the latter with dusky shafts : sides inclin- 

 ing to brown : under wing-coverts bright yellow : 

 two middle tail-feathers chesnut-brown, the rest 

 black ; except the two outer ones, which have 

 an oblique white bar half way from the tip, and 

 the outermost one being white throughout the 

 whole of its exterior web : legs brown : claws 

 dusky. Female similar to the male on the upper 

 parts, but the colours less vivid : the under yellow, 

 streaked with dusky, and inclining to white at the 

 chin and vent. 



This species was first discovered to be an inha- 

 bitant of this country by Mr. Montagu ; who has 

 often taken them in the neighbourhood of Knights- 

 bridge, and who likewise says they are to be found 

 over most parts of Devon and Cornwall : their nests 



