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Title: The birds of Europe
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Gould, John, 1804-1881
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, pub. by the author
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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f each feather; back of the neckand back reddish brown, with a broader and more conspicuous stripe down each feather, but becoming nearlyimperceptible on the rump ; wing-coverts chestnut, striped down the centre with blackish brown ; secondariesblackish brown, bounded on each side with rufous and margined with pale brown ; quills and tail brownmargined with paler brown ; ear-coverts deep reddish brown, beneath which is a broad stripe of buff; throatwhitish ; bounded on each side with numerous oblong spots of dark brown, which meet and cover the frontof the breast; under surface buff, marked on each side immediately below the breast with several indistinctspots of chestnut, and on the flanks by stripes of dark brown on the centre of each feather; bill, legs, andfeet pale brown. The female only differs in having the spots on the sides of the throat and breast more numerous, and inhaving the whitish part of the throat less extensive. We have figured a male and female of the natural size.
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EAD © W MUWT JLWGroEmberiza. cia; fZiwn/. ■ J. MEADOW BUNTING. Emberiza cia, Linn. Le Bruant fou, ou de pre. This species of Bunting, although common in the meadows bordering the Rhine, as well as in the southernparts of France, Italy, Spain, and adjoining the Mediterranean, does not appear to be distributed in the Northas is the case with so many of its congeners, neither Holland nor England being among the places of itshabitat. The nearest-allied species among our native Buntings is the Reed Bunting (^Emberiza schceniculus, Linn.),which it resembles, not only in its general habits and manners, but in the peculiar character of its markings,particularly about the head, and in the feebleness of the beak. The nearest extra-British species in alliancewith it is the Emberiza lesbia: and it would appear that with both of these birds in certain stages of plumage ithas been confounded ; and not with these only, as will appear from the following translation of a note which wehave taken the

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