CORN BUNTING 75 
EMBERIZA MILIARIA, Linn. CORN 
BUNTING. 
THistLE Cock (Kermode), Bartey Brrp. Manx, *Pompee-ny- 
hoarn (Cr.)=Bunting of the barley. (Cregeen translates 
this ‘a small bird.’) Ushag rouayr (or ‘roauyx’) ny 
hoarn=fat bird of the barley (Cr. and M. 8. D.); *Kione 
rouayr ny hoarn (Lonan)=fat head of the barley ;1 Gealag- 
vagher (M.S. D.)=Sparrow of the field (?). (Cf. Sc. Gaelic, 
Gealag Bhuachair ; Irish, Gealbhan an guib ramhair.) 
This species, now local, was formerly much more gener- 
ally distributed. In Lonan some thirty or forty years ago 
it was abundant, and was commonly, under the name of 
Barley Bird, killed and eaten, as were other small birds at 
that time. In that parish, during the two years (1895-7) 
I lived there, it was a scarce bird, yet any day in summer a 
bird might be seen perched on the telegraph wires at a 
certain spot some two miles north of Laxey on the Ramsey 
road. In the neighbourhood of Peel Mr. Graves says it is 
very sparingly found. In the level northern and southern 
districts it is still pretty frequent, and in the neighbour- 
hood it inhabits is in summer a conspicuous bird, uttering 
from a brier or the top of a wall beside the road its un- 
melodious song during the hot weather, which silences most 
species. But I have also heard the song just outside 
Castletown in the middle of November. 
A white example was shot by Mr. (Dr.) Crellin, of Orris- 
dale (Kermode, Y. LZ. M., iii. 524). It is not now to be seen in 
his collection. 
1 At the beginning of last century barley was very abundantly grown in Man. 
(See the interesting chapter on Agriculture in Mr. Moore’s encyclopedic History 
of the Isle of Man.) 
