. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . es. M. Cuvier, he adds, depicts them in aword by saying that they are granivorous birds which possesslittle prudence, and fall into all the snares that are set forthem. The only correct character here given is that of thecolours of the females being duller, but it is common to all theDeglubitores and many groups besides. The rest is th
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . es. M. Cuvier, he adds, depicts them in aword by saying that they are granivorous birds which possesslittle prudence, and fall into all the snares that are set forthem. The only correct character here given is that of thecolours of the females being duller, but it is common to all theDeglubitores and many groups besides. The rest is the Corn Bunting and the Reed Bunting nestle in woods,or even bushes I And as to their imprudence, they are not awhit more easily caught than the Finches, Sparrows, Linnets,or Larks. The distinction between this genus and Plectrophanes isvery slight, insomuch that the latter might with propriety beconsidered merely a section of it. Species belonging to itoccur in all parts of the world. In Britain there are four : theCorn Bunting, the Yellow Bunting, the Cirl Bunting, and theReed Bunting; to which, as a very rare straggler, may beadded the Ortolan. 440 EMBERIZA MILIARIA. THE CORN BUNTING. BUNTING. COMMON BUNTING. SPARROW. SPARIG. GEALAG Fig. 78. Emberiza Miliaria. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 308. Emberiza Miliaria. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 402. Bunting. Mont. Orn. Diet. Bruant Proyer. Emberiza :Miliaria. Temm. Man. dOrn. I. 306. Common Bunting. Emberiza Miliaria. Selb. Illustr. I. 286. Emberiza Miliaria. Common Bunting. Jen. Brit. Yert. An. 130. Upper parts light yellowish-hrown, each feather hhcJcish-hrotnialong the shaft; lower parts pale yellowish-grey, each feather ofthe fore-neck tipped with a triajignlar spot of broicnish-blacJc. Male.—The Corn Bunting is a remarkably full and ro-bust bird, which in colour bears a most intimate resemblanceto the Field Lark. Its bill is in all respects as described inthe generic character, as are the feet and organs of sense. Theplumage is o
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