ORTOLAN BUNTING 201 



Bunting, but I have had specimens twice from Mr. C. 

 Gordon, of Dover, obtained in that neighbourhood.' " 



The Eev. C. H. Fielding, in 1893, added Eamsgate as 

 a locahty. 



In 1894, Mr. W. Prentis, in his Birds of Bainham, 

 writes : " There is only one patch in my district where 

 the Girl Bunting is to be found, about a mile of trees 

 and bushes bordering the marshes in the vicinity of two 

 old decoy ponds. I once found a nest containing eggs 

 in an old dried-up decoy pond ; it was built on the ground 

 amongst the dead stems of the reeds." 



In British Birds' Nests and Eggs, 1903, Dr. A. G. 

 Butler states that " Mr. Bidwell recognised in my col- 

 lection a clutch of eggs of this species w^hich I had taken 

 at Iwade, near Sheppey, on June 5, 1877, as being 

 unquestionably those of Emheriza cirlus." 



OETOLAN BUNTING. 



Emheriza liortulana, Linnaeus. >S'.iV., i., p. 309 

 (177G). 



This Bunting appears to be a very rare accidental 

 visitor to this country, and the only records of its occur- 

 rence in Kent are briefly as follows : In the Zoologist, 

 1866, Lord Clifton, of Cobham Hall, writing on May 2, 

 1866, states : " On April 10, I saw here (Cobham, Kent) 

 a Bunting, which, in my opinion, and in that of the 

 Editor of the Field, was undoubtedly Emheriza hortidana 

 It was sitting on an elder bush near a large pond, and 

 remained there for some minutes. I at once distinguished 

 it by its green head." 



