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BRITISH BIRDS, 
THE GREEN-HEADED BUNTING. 
( Emberiza chlorocephala, Lin.) 
The crew of a collier vessel caught this rare visitant 
at sea, as it was making its way to the shore, on the 
Yorkshire coast, after a severe storm of wind in the 
month of May, 1822 . It lived a short time after it 
was brought to land, and after its death, was stuffed 
and presented to this work by G. T. Fox, Esq. of 
Westoe. It is about the size of the Yellow Bunting, 
its bill is of a dark reddish colour ; the head and neck, 
as far as the breast, are of a lightish olive green, and 
in some lights seem very slightly tinged with pale ash. 
The chin and throat are of a pale greenish yellow ; 
and a streak of the same colour falls down from the 
corners of the lower mandibles, before the auriculars. 
The breast and belly are of a lightish rusty chesnut ; 
the vent and under coverts of the tail are the same. 
