. An illustrated manual of British birds . reater favourite as a cage-bird. Adult male : head, neck, mantle and rump carmine-red, slightlymottled, owing to the protrusion of the black bases of the feathers ;wings black, with white tips to the inner secondaries, and broadpinkish-white edges to the greater and median wing-coverts ;tail-feathers brownish-black, narrowly edged with reddish-white ;under parts carmine-red, which fades into white on the belly ; billhorn-colour, lighter on the lower mandible; legs dull 625 in. ; wing 37 in. In less mature birds the pink tingeon the wing-b
. An illustrated manual of British birds . reater favourite as a cage-bird. Adult male : head, neck, mantle and rump carmine-red, slightlymottled, owing to the protrusion of the black bases of the feathers ;wings black, with white tips to the inner secondaries, and broadpinkish-white edges to the greater and median wing-coverts ;tail-feathers brownish-black, narrowly edged with reddish-white ;under parts carmine-red, which fades into white on the belly ; billhorn-colour, lighter on the lower mandible; legs dull 625 in. ; wing 37 in. In less mature birds the pink tingeon the wing-bands is wanting, and the flanks are striated. Female :upper parts greenish-grey, with a yellow tint, and dusky-brownstreaks; rump pale yellow; under parts greyish-yellow, paler onthe throat and abdomen, and streaked with dusky-brown. Youngbird in August: much striated on a greyish ground, with hardly anytrace of yellow ; white upper wing-bar very narrow ; quills and tail-feathers distinctlv margined with greenish-white. ^.. 197. s^>^ BLACK-HEADED melanocephala, Scopoli. The Black-headed Bunting—not to be confounded with our com-mon Reed-Bunting, which is sometimes called by this name—-is aninhabitant of the south-eastern portions of Europe ; but from time totime it wanders in a westerly direction, and, owing to the increasedattention now paid to ornithology, its presence has already beendetected on three occasions in Great Britain. The first example,an adult female, identified by the late Mr. Gould, and now inthe collection of Mr. T. J. Monk of Lewes, was shot near Brightonwhile following a flock of Yellow Buntings, about November 3rd1868. The Rev. J- R- Ashworth has recorded (Zool. 1886, p. 73),the acquisition of an identified specimen in June or July 1884,stated to have been shot in Nottinghamshire. The third examplewas said by the dealer from whom it was purchased to have beencaptured alive near Dunfermline about November 5th 1886, andwas r
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