. The sportsman's British bird book . nd the bullfinch, areexcellent songsters. MOUNTEO IN JHL ROiVLANO AAIIO STUDIOS As a group, the buntmgs, or BLNTINC;. o 1 .-) Embcrizinx*, are characterised bythe circumstance that the horny sheath of the beak does not extendbackwards behind the line of the front margin of the socket of the eye ;while there is a larger or smaller interval between the edges of theupper and lower halves of the beak when closed, and the lower half issharply angulated at the base of the horny portion. Scribbled linesand hair-like dark streaks on a light ground arc ver\- charac
. The sportsman's British bird book . nd the bullfinch, areexcellent songsters. MOUNTEO IN JHL ROiVLANO AAIIO STUDIOS As a group, the buntmgs, or BLNTINC;. o 1 .-) Embcrizinx*, are characterised bythe circumstance that the horny sheath of the beak does not extendbackwards behind the line of the front margin of the socket of the eye ;while there is a larger or smaller interval between the edges of theupper and lower halves of the beak when closed, and the lower half issharply angulated at the base of the horny portion. Scribbled linesand hair-like dark streaks on a light ground arc ver\- characteristic ofbuntings* eggs. The bunting or corn-bunting, as it is often called, differs from otherKmberizina. by its more uniformly coloured plumage, and especiallythe absence of a patch of white on .some of the outer feathers of thetail. In general appearance this bird presents indeed a strikingsimilarity to a lark, for which it is no doubt often mistaken. It may,however, be distinguished by the shortness of the claw of the hind-toe,. YELLOW HAMMER 5 D the absence of a white patch on the outer tail-feathers, the bluntedcontour of the tips of the secondary quills of the wings, and thecharacteristic bunting - beak. The colour of the plumage — whichpresents no sexual difference—on the upper-parts is hair-brownstreaked with darker brown, the wing-coverts being, however, darkbrown with buff edges ; the throat and upper part of the breast, aswell as, in a somewhat less degree, the flanks, are tinged with buffand streaked with dark brown, but the remainder of the under-partsis dull white; young birds are darlcer than their parents, with thelight margins to the wing-coverts tawny rather than buff. Ranging only as far north as the south of Scandinavia, and inRussia to the neighbourhood of Riga, while to the southward itextends to the Canaries and the north of Africa, the bunting is prettygenerally distributed all over Europe between these limits, where itis a resident species, while
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