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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of buntings, conirostral passerine birds of the family Fringillidæ, such as the common corn-bunting of Europe (E. miliaria), the yellow bunting (E. citrinella), the cirl-bunting (E. cirlus), the ortolan (E. hortulana), etc. The limits of the genus are indefinite, and the term has no more exact meaning than bunting (which see). In a late restricted sense it includes more than 50 species, confined to the Palæarctic, Indian, and Ethiopian regions. None of the very many North and South American buntings which have been called
Emberiza properly belong to this genus. SeeEmberizinæ , and cuts underbunting and cirl-bunting.
WordNet 3.0
- n. Old World buntings
Examples
“LINARIA ciris (emberiza ciris Linn.) or painted finch, or nonpareil of Catesby are not seen North of Cape Fear in North Carolina, and seldom ten miles from the sea coast, or perhaps twenty or thirty miles, near the banks of great rivers, in fragrant groves of the Orange (Citrus aurantium) Zanthoxilon, Laurus Borbonia, Cassine, Sideroxilon, &c.”
“I SHALL first mention the rice bird, (emberiza oryza vora.)”
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