Brandt's vSiberiax Bunting, The Rustic Bunting 125 



Family —FRINCjIL L ID. E. SuhJamily—EMBERIZIN. E. 



Brandt's Siberian Bunting. 



Eiiibciiza aoidcs, BraNDT. 



AN example of tlie Chinese race of this species, said to have been obtained 

 near Flamborough, in October, 1887, was purchased in June, 1888, by Mr. 

 R. W. Chase, of Birmingham : there seems, however, to be some question 

 as to the date of capture ; * and, in any case, it appears to me to have no claim 

 to be called a British species. 



Eamtly—ERLYGILLID.E. Suhfamiiy-EMBERIZLWE. 



The Rustic Bunting. 



Eiiihcriza rusliid, PallAS. 



AN accidental straggler to our shores, of which the first example was captured 

 near Brighton, on October 23rd, 1867, the second was shot on the Holder- 

 ness coast, Yorkshire, on September 17th, 1881, the third captured at 

 Elstree reservoir, near L'mdon, on November, 1882. A young male was shot at 

 Westfield, Sussex, by a boy in September 1902, a female was recognized at St. 

 Leonards in 1906; another, captured in Northumberland in 1902, was exhibited 

 at the Crystal Palace in 1905, two examples were secured in Scotland in 1905 

 and one in 1906. It is tolerably certain that nearly all the specimens of this 

 and the following species which are from time to time exhibited at bird-shows, 

 are Continental specimens. 



* Viiie "Zoologist," 1891, p. 363, «liere this specimeu is staled to liavebccu obtaiiifd in November, 1S86. 

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