. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . icroad near Whiterigg in December 1887. 188 THE REED-BUNTING. observed in the stackyard at Foulden West Mains aboutthe same time.^ The food of the Eeed-Bunting in summer consistschiefly of insects, and in winter it eats the seeds of grassand other plants, as well as grain. The nest, which is composed of dry bents lined withhair, is generally built close to the ground, among rankves;etation or rushes, but I have someti
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . icroad near Whiterigg in December 1887. 188 THE REED-BUNTING. observed in the stackyard at Foulden West Mains aboutthe same time.^ The food of the Eeed-Bunting in summer consistschiefly of insects, and in winter it eats the seeds of grassand other plants, as well as grain. The nest, which is composed of dry bents lined withhair, is generally built close to the ground, among rankves;etation or rushes, but I have sometimes found it inlow willow bushes in a saugh bog.^ The eggs, which arefrom four to six in number, are usually of a purple browncolour, spotted or blotched, and streaked with dark brownor black. 1 Hist. JBer. Nat. Cliib, vol. xi. p. 236. 2 Mr. Comiston-Lundie, of Spital, showed me a nest with five young amongstrushes, near the lily j^ond at Spital House, on 11th June 1888. 3 When a boy I used to search for the Coal-Hoodens nest iu a saugh bognear the Under Kilns at Salton, East-Lothian, and occasionally found it beautiful coffee-coloured eggs were considered ^},] PASSERES. ( 189 ) EMBERIZIDM. THE SNOW-BUNTING. SNOW-FOWL, SNOW-FLECK, SNOW-FLAKE, TAWNY BUNTING,MOUNTAIN BUNTING, GREAT PIED MOUNTAIN FINCH, Plectrophanes nivalis. Bui O the Snazu-Fleck ! The bonny, bonny Snaw-Fleck, She is the bird for me, O. James Hogg. The local name of this interesting and pretty bird isvery appropriate; for in the dark lowering weather whichusually precedes a snow-storm in winter, the white markson the parti-coloured plumage of a flock of Snow-Buntingson the wing, coupled with their wavering flight, somewhatresemble flakes of falling snow. The Snow-Bunting is an autumn and winter visitorfrom the north, arriving in Berwickshire from about thethird week in October to the middle of November, andleaving us again for northern regions towards the end ofMarch.^ It is seen, while on migrat
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