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of October following. Professor Newton confirmed Mr. 

 Eagle Clarke's opinion, and exhibited the specimen at the 

 meeting of the Zoological Society on 15th November 1881. 



It is worthy of remark that on the same date that the 

 Yorkshire Rustic Bunting, which is probably a young female, 

 was procured, a fine young bird was obtained on Heligoland. 

 The Yorkshire example is now in the York Museum. (P.Z.S. 

 1881, p. 827 ; Nat. 1881, p. 57 ; 1888, p. i ; Zool. 1881, 

 p. 465 ; Ibis, 1882, p. 181.) 



[An alleged occurrence of the Little Bunting, Emheriza 

 pusilla (Pallas), at Yarm on ist January 1900, proved on 

 examination to be an error, the specimen being an immature 

 example of the Reed Bunting {Field, 6th January and 31st 

 March 1900), and although it can scarcely be said, with strict 

 accuracy, that this species, which is a native of northern 

 Russia and Siberia, and a straggler to western Europe, has 

 actually occurred in this county, yet the second recorded 

 British example was met with on the Durham side of the 

 Teesmouth under circumstances which call for notice at 

 our hands. It was shot by the late C. Braithwaite on 

 nth October 1902, near Seaton Snook, during an easterly 

 wind which had prevailed for fully a week, and, as the river 

 Tees is the boundary between Durham and this county, 

 it is reasonable to assume that the Little Bunting may have 

 come within the Yorkshire limits. The specimen in question 

 was exhibited at the British Ornithologists' Club on 22nd 

 October 1902. {Nat. 1902, p. 353 ; Zool. 1902, p. 466 ; Ihis, 

 1903, p. 139.)] 



REED BUNTING. 

 Emberiza schoeniclus (Z.). 



Resident ; common in most marshy districts. Migrates in autumn, 

 being replaced by arrivals from the north ; a return passage takes 

 place early in April. 



The earliest reference to the Reed Bunting as a Yorkshire 



