Identifier: birdsofgreatbrit02butl (find matches)
Title: Birds of Great Britain and Ireland
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur Gardiner, 1844-1925 Grld, H. (Henrik), 1858-1940 Frohawk, Frederick William, 1861-1946
Subjects: Passeriformes -- Great Britain Passeriformes -- Ireland Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Ireland
Publisher: Hull London : Brumby & Clarke
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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nd, 1S64; a femalewas secured in Durham and a male in Warwick in 1902, one was caughtby a cat in Scotland in 1903, an example was seen at Eair Isle in 1905,and a female secured in 1906; all these examples were met with in (October.At best it can only be regarded as a rare and chance wanderer to GreatBritain, although there is no reason why it should not occasionally visit us. Family—FRINGILLID.E. Subfamily—EMBEREZIN.E. The Reed-Bunting. Eiiibcriza sclianicliis, Linn. FREQUENTLY, though incorrectly, called Black-headed Bunting, ReedSparrow, Water Sparrow, and Mountain Sparrow; also well-known underthe popular name of Black-bonnet, is distributed over the whole of Europefrom the North Cape to the Mediterranean, as well as in Western Siberia; butit is only a summer visitor to the more northern parts of its range, and chiefly awinter visitor to the extreme south ; at this season it is also met with in AsiaMinor and North x\frica. Races of this species occurring in the south of Europe,
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Reed-Bunting s tHj. ?. Plate 89. Thk Rhed-Buxtixg 127 iu Siberia, Mongolia, uud China, and a snbspecies in Turkestan and Yarkand,have been distinguished by names ; but none of them occur in Great Britain. The Reed-Bunting is resident with us, and generally distributed throughoutour islands, although onh- a chance visitor to the Shetlands. In the autumn thereis an extensive immigration from the Continent, which reaches our eastern coastsand the coasts of Ireland in September. The adult male has the head, including the chin, throat, and centre of breastjet black; a white moustachial streak running from the base of the lower mandibleto join a white collar continuous with a belt which bounds the black of throatand breast; feathers of back, wing-coverts, and secondaries black, bordered broadlywith bright chestnut; lower back and upper tail-coverts bluish-ash, the featherstipped with chestnut, those of the lower back partly black-centered; primariessmok3-brown, with narrow chestnut edges to

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