. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . ut its specific characters are plain, and cannoteasily be mistaken. The colours of the female are lessbright than those of the male, with very little yellowabout the head. This bird is common in every lane and on every hedgethroughout the country, flitting before the traveller as hepasses along the road, or uttering its simple and frequent-ly repeated monotone on the hedges by the way-side. Itfeeds on various kinds of seeds, inse<5ls, &c. The femalemakes an artless nest, composed of hay, dried roots, andmoss, which she lines with
. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . ut its specific characters are plain, and cannoteasily be mistaken. The colours of the female are lessbright than those of the male, with very little yellowabout the head. This bird is common in every lane and on every hedgethroughout the country, flitting before the traveller as hepasses along the road, or uttering its simple and frequent-ly repeated monotone on the hedges by the way-side. Itfeeds on various kinds of seeds, inse<5ls, &c. The femalemakes an artless nest, composed of hay, dried roots, andmoss, which she lines with hair and wool: she lays fouror five eggs, marked with dark irregular streaks, andfrequehtly has more than one brood in the season. InItaly where small birds of almost every description aremade use of for the table, this is esteemed very goodeating, and is frequently fattened for that purpose like theOrtolan; but with us, who are accustomed to grosserkinds of food, it is considered too insignificant to formany part of our repasts. X 2 I^G FRITISH BIRDS;. THE BLACK-HEADED BUNTING. REED BUNTING, OR REED SPARROW.{^Emberi%a SchanicliiSt Lin.—LOrtolan de Rofeauxy Buff. J This bird is less than the Yellow Bunting. Its eyes-are hazel \ the head, throat, fore part of the neck, andbreast are black, excepting a white line from each cornerof the bill, passing downward a little, and forming aborder which reaches the back part of the neck; the up-per parts of the body and the wings are of a reddishbrown, with a streak of black down the middle of eachfeather; the under part of the body is white, with,brownish streaks on the sides j the rump and upper tailcoverts bluish ash colour, mixed with brown ; th6 quillsare dusky, edged with brown; the two middle feathersof the tail are black, with pale brown edges ; the restwholly black, except the two outer ones, which are al-most white, the ends tipped with brown, and the basesblack ; the legs and feet dusky brown. The female haslap collar \ her t
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