More abundant were the small birds in mixed flocks or hordes-finches, buntings, and larks in thousands on thousands, with a sprinkling of pipits and pied and grey wagtails, all busily feeding on the stubble and fresh ploughed land.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
"Perhaps there will be a chorus of pipits, fox and white-throated sparrows, robins, warblers and buntings.
"Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North"
Fullerton Waldo
Nearby in her tent he heard Annadoah's voice, sweet as the song of buntings.
"The Eternal Maiden"
T. Everett Harré