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Bunting

the popular name of a number of insessorial birds, family emberizidæ, chiefly included in the genus emberiza; such as the English or common bunting; the rice bunting; the Lapland, snow, black-headed, yellow, cirl, and ortolan buntings. The yellow bunting or yellow hammer (E. citrinella) is one of the most common British birds.

BUOY The common or corn bunting (E. miliaria) is also common in cultivated districts. The snow bunting (plectrophănes nivālis) is one of the few birds which cheer the solitudes of the Polar regions.

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