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CIRL BUNTING. 
in many respects, to resemble the last in its man- 
ners, in some districts being more partial to trees 
than the lower hedges and brushwood. The nest 
is said to be generally placed in a furze bush, and 
is composed of materials similar to that of the 
last, and, indeed, of all our British species. 
During the season of incubation, and most of the 
summer, the food is partly insects, grasshoppers 
being a large portion ; berries of various kinds 
seem also to be frequently eaten, and there, in 
one instance mentioned, where those of solarium 
dulcamara were much fed upon. 
The throat of this species is of a dark blackish 
green, which immediately distinguishes it from 
the Common Yellow Bunting ; a streak of the 
same colour passes through the eye and under 
the auriculars, and the intervening spaces with a 
streak over the eye, and a gorget under the dark 
throat, are of a delicate primrose yellow ; crown 
of the head and nape yellowish gray, with the 
centre of the feathers black ; feathers on the back 
orange brown, dark in the centre, and having 
paler margins ; scapulars reddish orange ; wings 
blackish brown ; the secondaries edged with 
brownish orange ; the quills narrowly, with 
greenish gray ; tail umber brown, edged on the 
outer webs with greenish gray, that of the outer 
feather nearly pure white, and having a portion 
of the inner web of the two entire feathers also 
white ; the breast is greenish gray, forming a band 
across, and running up upon the sides of the 
neck ; this is followed by brownish orange, which 
