APPENDIX L 



LIST OF BRITISH SPECIES 



WHOSE NESTS AND EGGS ARE AT PRESENT 

 UNKNOWN TO SCIENCE. 



Family FRINGILLID^. Genus Emberiza. 



Sub-family EMBERIZIN^. 



RUSTIC BUNTING. 



Emberiza rustica, Pallas. 

 (British : Rare abnormal autumn migrant.) 



The breeding grounds of this species are in sub-Arctic 

 Europe and Asia, and extend from the Baltic in the 

 west to Kamtschatka in the east. This Bunting does 

 not appear to range further north in Europe than lat. 65°, 

 and in Asia not beyond lat. 62°. The eggs of this species 

 have never been thoroughly authenticated. Dresser de- 

 scribes eggs sent to him from the vicinity of Archangel ; 

 Professor Newton furnishes some particulars of another 

 ^%% presumed to belong to this species ; whilst Mr. 

 Seebohm has described others from Archangel and the 

 Altai ; but in all these cases the identification is incom- 

 plete. Until the parents are obtained with the nest and 

 eggs, we are fully justified in rejecting these specimens 

 as unreliable. 



