The Yki. low-Breasted Buxtixg, Th]'. Ciki, Btxtixg 117 



Family— FRlXi UL L ID. F. Suhjaiiiily—FHIBFRIZIA >F. 



The Yellow-Breasted Bunting. 



Fiiibcnza autcola, PalLAS. 



A 



N immature female was shut at Clc}-, Norfolk, in September 1905. It has 

 occurred at Heligoland, North Italy and south-eastern France. 



Family- FRFXGILLID.F. Suhfam ily—EMBERIZIN\F. 



The Cirl Bunting. 



Eiiibcriza chins, LiNN. 



THE range of the Cirl Bunting is more restricted than that of the other 

 European species as it does not extend into the northern parts of the 

 Continent. In Central and Southern Europe it is resident, but in Southern 

 Italy, Greece, and Asia Minor, it seeks the mountains for breeding purposes. In 

 Belgium and Holland it is said to be rare. It has been found breeding in Algeria, 

 but appears to be chiefly a winter visitor to North-west Africa. 



Though resident in Great Britain and not rave, the Cirl Bunting is decidedly 

 local, being essentially a southern species. Formerly every work on British 

 Birds which was published, used to assert that this bird was found breeding in 

 all the southern counties from Cornwall to Sussex, being apparently absent from 



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