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BUNTING. 
COMMON BUNTING. COEN BUNTING. BUNTING BASE. 
Emberiza miliaria , Pennant. Montagu. Bewick. 
Emberiza —.? Miliaria —A bird that feeds on millet. 
Tjie bird before us is a native of Europe and Asia; in the 
former, in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iiussia, and southwards 
in Germany, Greece, and the Mediterranean, and in the latter 
in Asia Minor. 
The Bunting is a common bird in most, though not in 
all, parts of the kingdom, frequenting the cultivated districts, 
and these almost exclusively, in Yorkshire, Shropshire, Sussex, 
Cornwall, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lancashire, Northumberland, Cum¬ 
berland, Durham, and other counties; in Wales also, and in 
various parts of Scotland—Dumfriesshire, Edinburghshire, and 
Sutherlandshire, as also in the Orkneys, where it breeds; 
in the Hebrides and Shetland Islands. It is not, however, 
invariably to be found in plenty in situations in which it 
might be looked for in abundance, as in other similar ones, 
but is somewhat capricious in the choice of its localities. 
It is believed to be in some degree migratory, and that our 
flocks are reinforced at the commencement of winter by others 
from the Continent; partial movements, at all events, take 
place in the winter. 
Though seen only in pairs in the spring and summer, these 
birds associate in the autumn and winter months with others, 
both those of their own, though not numerously, and those 
of other species; a community of object producing a ‘com¬ 
munism’ of habit—an ornithological ‘socialism,’ which may be 
defended on the most abstract and practical principles of 
