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ORTOLAN BUNTING. 



Emberiza hortulana (Z.). 



Accidental visitant, of extremely rare occurrence. 



This Bunting, which in summer is found as far north as 

 the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia, and breeds in France, 

 Flanders, and Dutch Brabant, is only known in Yorkshire 

 as a rare visitor on the spring and autumn migrations. 



The first Yorkshire record is that of a male, now in the 

 Newcastle Museum, which was caught on board a collier off 

 the coast in May 1822, and was figured by Bewick for his 

 " British Birds " (Seebohm, " Brit. Birds," Vol. ii. p. 153 ; 

 Jardine, " Brit. Birds," Vol. ii. p. 311). 



The late Canon J. C. Atkinson of Danby recorded in the 

 Zoologist (1863, p. 8768), having seen a bird of this species 

 near Guisbrough, in Cleveland, on i6th August 1863, and, 

 writing to Mr. W. Eagle Clarke in 1880, he remarked, " I saw 

 three specimens near Guisbrough in the spring fourteen or 

 fifteen years ago." 



Another Yorkshire specimen was obtained by the late 

 H. B. Hewetson of Leeds, who, on nth October 1889, shot 

 a young female in a field near Easington {Nat. 1890, p. 8). 



A skin of a male Ortolan, now in the possession of Mr. 

 S. L. Mosley of Huddersfield, was purchased from the 

 executors of the late J. Varley of that town, and is labelled 

 " Bedale, Yorks., July 9th 1882 " {op. cit. 1892, p. 3). 



SIBERIAN MEADOW BUNTING. 



Emberiza cioides {Brandt). 



A straggler from Siberia, of extremely rare occurrence. 



To Yorkshire belongs the honour of producing the only 

 known European example of this rare inhabitant of Siberia 



