bunting's

The reed bunting's transition into breeding dress seems a perfect metaphor for this specific moment.

Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk 2011

The bunting's nest is in a low elm bush close to the fence where a wee brown bird sits listening to the strains of the bright little bird above and the little dickcissels have just hatched out in the nest at the base of a tussock not very far away.

Some Summer Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

As he walked along he would say suddenly, "Go there" -- but without lifting his eyes, just waving his hand towards the spot -- "and there you will find a bunting's nest, or a stone-chat's"; nor once in a dozen times would he be mistaken.

Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

And there was a nest, sure enough -- my first lark bunting's -- set in a shallow pit of the ground, prettily concealed and partly roofed over by the flat and spreading weed-stalk.

Birds of the Rockies 1896

This was the only bunting's nest I found, although I made long and diligent search for others, as you may well believe when I state that a half day was spent in gathering the facts recorded in the last two paragraphs.

Birds of the Rockies 1896

We must give a detailed account of the bunting's song.

Birds of the Rockies 1896