. Our favourite song birds ; their habits, music, and characteristics . G Emberiza schceniclus This pretty Bunting is another widely dispersedif somewhat local species. It is found in nearly allsuitable localities throughout the British Islands, in-cluding even such remote and comparatively barrendistricts as the Hebrides and the Orkneys, althoughit is only a rare abnormal migrant to the our area the Reed Bunting occurs in mostparts of Europe, reaching as far north as the limitsof forest growth, and as far east as the valley ofthe Yenesay, possibly beyond. To North Africa,Gre
. Our favourite song birds ; their habits, music, and characteristics . G Emberiza schceniclus This pretty Bunting is another widely dispersedif somewhat local species. It is found in nearly allsuitable localities throughout the British Islands, in-cluding even such remote and comparatively barrendistricts as the Hebrides and the Orkneys, althoughit is only a rare abnormal migrant to the our area the Reed Bunting occurs in mostparts of Europe, reaching as far north as the limitsof forest growth, and as far east as the valley ofthe Yenesay, possibly beyond. To North Africa,Greece, Asia Minor, Turkestan and North-westIndia it appears to be a winter migrant to the presence of several closely allied racesor subspecies it is difficult to define the exact easternlimits of the typical Reed Bunting; but we mayassert that in one form or another it is found inmost parts of the entire Palaearctic region, south ofthe limits of forest growth. This bird may very aptly be termed a water-side Bunting, its favourite haunts always being near to. Reed Bunting THE REED BUNTING 201 water of some description. It is a frequent residentin and about large brick and clay fields, loves thebanks of reed-fringed, slow-running rivers, pondsand canals; whilst in more remote localities it mayusually be found on rough swampy ground andmarshes. We remember to have found the ReedBunting very common in certain bogs in Skye,where it was a most familiar species, frequentingthe rough ground just outside the huts of the crofters,tame and confiding as the House Sparrow in morecultivated districts. It is by no means a shy bird,and it may often be seen clinging to some tall weedin a Stonechat sort of way, taking short flights fromone stem to another, and looking very conspicuousin its strongly contrasted black and white summer this Bunting is generally met within pairs, and very pretty lively little birds they are,ever and anon taking short flights or perching inthe
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