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Show 294 AVES. BEARDED TITMOUSE • the upper mandible of the beak, D·ro from the true ones m . the 1 ers . . h 1 b t upon the other. There 1s but one end of which IS shg t y en in France. . . 8 L • La Moustache; Enl. 618, 1 and 2; Vieill. Par. bwrmtcu ' ., T' ) Fawn coloured· 6 (The Bearded ltmouse. ' 69; Naum. 9 · . 'th a black band which surrounds head of the male cm~reous, ~~behind It builds among rushes, h terminating m a pom • ta ned eiyse f,o und, thoug h rare1 y , throughout the whole of the eastern continent. REMIZ. d d ointed than that of the common The beak more sl.en er anlly~ore art displayed in the construe· Titmouse, and there lS genera . Th 's but one found m France. tion of its nest. ere lL R .. Enl 618 3. Vieill. 70; Naum. p pendulinus • e em'tz' · ' ' ar.' • : s and tail brown; a black band on the fore· ~9. dcu;~~::s,i:l:h~ male, is continued to behind the eye~. Te:is' little bird, inhabiting the south and east ~of E~o!re't~: celebrated for the pretty, pu:se-shape: ~e:~ '~~~e feathers, down from the poplar and willow, an m . which it suspends to the flexile branches of aquatic trees.(i) EMBEinzA, Lin. The Buntings have a very distinct character in their conical, s?o:t and straight beak, the upper mandible of which is narrow, ~nt: into the lower, and has a projecting, hard tuber~leh on t~et pev:ry. 'fhey are granivorous, an d unsusp1·c 1· o us birds ' whtc run m 0 snare that is laid for them. 102 1 E citrinella L.· Bruant commun; Enl. 30, 1; Naum. '.~ n (•The Yell~w Bunting.) Fawn coloured back, spotted Wlbt ,b.,l ack. head and all the under part of the b o d! Ye llo•w ·' t Iet inner' edge of the two external quills of the tall, w~tte. ·. builds in hedges, and approaches our d we n·m gs in wmter, 10 numberless flocks, along with the Finches, &c. (The E • C,•; a ' L .,· Bruantjiou,· Enl. 30, 2; Nau. m. •1 04b, • 1' 2r•e dd' b lS • Foolish Bunting.) Differs from the precedmg, m emg (1) Parue narbonemis (Enl, 708, 1) appears to b.~ th<l fie ma l eof Umlead pee nodfu }eointtuolPi add, the PtJrU4 capensi8, (Sonner. Voy, II, pl. cxu,) whose nest, k {! theJnaie and shaped like a bottle, hu a kind of 11pout on the edge of the nee ' or to perch on. PASSERINJE. 295 grey beneath, and having the sides of the head whitish, surrounded by black lines, forming a triangle. From mountainous districts.( 1) E. cirlua, L.; Bruant des haies; Enl. 653; Naum. 102, s, 4. (The Hedge Bunting.) Throat black; sides of the head yellow. Builds in the underwood on the borders of fields.(2) E. scltceniclus, L.; B. de roaeaux; Enl. 247, 2; Naum. 105. (The Reed Bunting.) A black calotte on the head; spots of the same colour on the breast; back, red. Builds at the foot of a bush on the brink of a stream, &c.(3) The largest species in France is, E. miliaria, L.; Le Prayer; Enl. 233; Naum. 101, 1. (The Common Bunting.) Brownish-grey, every where spotted with a deeper brown. Builds in grass, among grain, &c. The most celebrated for the flavour of its flesh is, E. hortulana, L.; Enl. 247, 1; Naum. 103. (The Ortolan.) 1 The back, olive-brown; throat yellowish; the inner side of the two external feathers of the tail, white. Builds in hedges; is very fat and common in autumn.( 4) E. melanocephala, Scop.; N aum. 10 1, 2; Pring. crocea, Vieill., Ois. Tab. 27. (The Black-headed Bunting.) Fawn-colour above; yellow underneath; black head. Is sometimes seen in the south of Europe. Also, (1) The Emb. lotharingica, Enl. 511, 1, is the same. (2) The Emb. pa8smna is also referred to it; and perhaps the Emb. provincialia, En!. 656, I, and lesbia, lb. 2, are only accidental varieties of the same. See noux, p.176 and I78. (3) M. Wolf thinks that the Emb. chlorocephala, and the Emb. baden.ds, should be united with it. (4) The Emb. melbensis, Sparm. Mus. Carls., l, 2I, is merely a young Ortolan. Notwithstanding all the synonymes we have pointed out, we are still compelled to remove from this genus the Emb. brumalis, which is the same bird as the Fringil/. citrindla, Enl. 658, 2 ;-E. rubra, the same as Firing. erythrocephala, En]. 665, 1, 2;-all the widows, as I shaH hereafter remark ;-Emb. quadricolor, En]. 101, 2 ;- ' Emh.cyanopis, Briss.m, pl. viii, fig. 4 ;-Emb. ccerulea, Id. lb. xiv, 2, the same as tyanella, Sparm. Carls. H, 42, 43, which are three cross-beaks ;-Emb. quelea, Enl. 223,1 ;-Emb. capensis, En]. 158 and 564 ;-Emb. borbonica, Enl. 321, 2 ;-Emb. brcuiliemis, lb. I, which are four Finches ;-Emb. ciris, En]. 158, which is a Linnet;-- and, finally, Emb. oryzivora, En]. 388, which bas the beak of a Linnet, independently of the species 1 have not been able to examine. But we must certainly Place in the genus Emberiza, the Emb. gubernator, T., Col. 63, the same as the Emh. cri8tatella, VieilL Gal. 67 ;-Emb. stri<Jlata, Ruppel. Av., pl. 10, a ;-Emb. ~ ld. lb., 6;-The Tanagra C1istatella, graminea, rujicollia, Spix, 53, are also Buntings. 'I'heEliiB:tJuzoiDEI, Tern., Col. 114, appear to be long and taper-tailed (etage) buntings whose beak approaches somewhat to that of the Finches. |