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EMBERIZINJE. EMBERIZA. 
the throat pale yellow, the breast marked with dark-brown 
spots, the rest of the lower parts whitish -red. 
AT 1 P BA 10^7 5 9 7 3 
male, 02? 
A few individuals of this species have occurred in England. 
The first recorded was caught near London ; one was taken at 
sea, off the coast of Yorkshire, in May 1822 ; a male was 
killed near Manchester in November 1827, and in the same 
year another male was caught near London. This species, 
which is common in the southern countries of Europe, mi- 
grates northward as far as the Baltic, although with us it oc- 
curs merely as a straggler. 
Emberiza Hortulana, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 309. — Emberiza 
Hortulana, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. i. 311. — Emberiza Hortu- 
lana, Ortolan Bunting, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, i. 457. 
117. Emberiza Schceniclus. Keed Bunting. 
Male with the head and throat black ; a line from the lower 
mandible down the neck, a broad band over the back of the 
neck, and the lower parts white ; the back bright chestnut, 
each feather brownish-black in the middle. Female with the 
upper parts as in the male, but paler ; a band of yellowish- 
grey across the neck ; the head of the same colour as the back ; 
the lower parts greyish- white. Young similar to the adult 
female, but with duller tints, and the cheeks brownish-grey. 
Male, 6^, 9^, 3y^jj, y^^, y®^, y^. Fcmale, 5^, 9. 
This species frequents marshy places, where it is seen perch- 
ing on willows, reeds, sedges, and other aquatic plants. Its 
flight is rapid and undulatory, and it alights abruptly, expand- 
ing its tail, when the white of that part becomes conspicuous. 
Its food consists of seeds, insects, and small mollusca. Its 
song resembles that of the Yellow Bunting, but is less harsh. 
The nest, which is placed among aquatic plants, is composed 
of stalks and blades of grasses, bits of rushes and the like, with 
a neat lining of finer grass and hair. The eggs, four or five, 
are nine and a half twelfths long, seven and a half twelfths 
broad, yellowish-grey, with tortuous or angular lines and ir- 
regular spots of black. 
Black-headed Bunting. Heed Sparrow. Water Sparrow. 
King Bunting. King-bird. King-fowl. Chink. 
Emberiza Schceniclus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 311. — Emberiza 
Schoeniculus, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. i. 307. — Emberiza Schoe- 
niculus, Keed Bunting, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, i. 453., 
