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THE LITTLE BUNTLXG. 



Emberiza pusi'lla, Pallas. 



The only British example yet recorded of this smallest of 

 European Buntings was brought, on November 2nd 1864, to the 

 late Mr. Swaysland of Brighton, and was identified alive by the late 

 Mr. G. D. Rowley. It was subsequently exhibited before the 

 Zoological Society, and now forms part of Mr. T. J. Monk's fine 

 collection of Sussex birds. Other wanderers may have occurred 

 and been overlooked. 



The Little Bunting has been obtained near Lund, in Sweden, on 

 the spring migration of 181 5 ; also once in East Prussia ; at long 

 intervals four or five specimens have been taken in Holland ; 

 two near Antwerp, in Belgium, in autumn ; and on Heligoland 

 about thirty passed through Gatke's hands, chiefly in September 

 and October. In the south-east of France the bird is said to occur 

 almost every autumn, and along the Riviera to Liguria and Northern 

 Italy it is not very uncommon on passage, while its wanderings 

 extend to Apulia and the Island of Sardinia ; and stray examples 

 have been obtained in Germany, Austria, the neighbourhood of 

 Constantinople, Smyrna and Beyrout, as well as twice in Algeria. 

 In summer the bird is found in Northern Russia as far west as 

 Onega, while eastward from Archangel and the valley of the Dwina 

 it increases as far as the Taimyr Peninsula, and reaches across 

 Siberia to the mountains beyond Lake Baikal, and the Amur dis- 

 trict. On passage it visits Mongolia, and winters in China, Burma, 

 Assam, the Andaman Islands, and the hill-districts of India. 



