. Our favourite song birds ; their habits, music, and characteristics . he YellowBunting is about six and a half inches. THE CIRL BUNTING Emberiza cirlus The Cirl Bunting is just as locally, as the YellowBunting is widely, distributed, and its breeding areais restricted to the southern half of England. Evenwithin this area it is extremely local. Its breedingrange may be said to extend from Cornwall to Kent,thence northwards through the counties of Surrey,Middlesex, Herts, and Bedford,and along the Thamesvalley to Gloucester, thence onwards through thevalleys of the Avon and Severn to Warwick,
. Our favourite song birds ; their habits, music, and characteristics . he YellowBunting is about six and a half inches. THE CIRL BUNTING Emberiza cirlus The Cirl Bunting is just as locally, as the YellowBunting is widely, distributed, and its breeding areais restricted to the southern half of England. Evenwithin this area it is extremely local. Its breedingrange may be said to extend from Cornwall to Kent,thence northwards through the counties of Surrey,Middlesex, Herts, and Bedford,and along the Thamesvalley to Gloucester, thence onwards through thevalleys of the Avon and Severn to Warwick, Wor-cester and Hereford. Its extra British limits areproportionately restricted, embracing Central andSouthern Europe, as far north as Dresden and asfar east as the Crimea and Asia Minor. ToNorth-west Africa it is a winter migrant, but a fewapparently remain to breed there. The Cirl Bunting was first distinguished as a British bird by Montagu at the beginning of the present century. He first discovered it in South Devonshire, and we can testify to the birds abund-194. CiRL Bunting THE CIRL BUNTING 195 ance in that county nearly a hundred years the Cirl Bunting may not be quite socommon in this country as the Yellow Bunting, it isby no means a rare bird, if a local one, and duringwinter may sometimes be seen in flocks consistingof several scores of individuals. More often it isto be met with in flocks of Yellow Buntings, andthe habits of the two species are remarkablyalike. In autumn and winter we remark the samegregarious tendencies, the same preference for thecompany of other hard-billed birds, the resortingto similar haunts. It is said that the Cirl Buntingshows more preference for trees. This it certainlydoes, but during spring and summer only ; inautumn and winter it may be seen as frequentlyupon the hedges and the ground as its commonerally. We have repeatedly watched flocks of CirlBuntings feeding on newly-manured fields and nearricks, fly up in scattered o
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