30 EMBERIZID.E. 



randa, May 20th, 1821, and the specimens so obtained were 

 described as a new species, under the name of Emberiza 

 borealis by Zetterstedt (Resa genom Sveriges och Norriges 

 Lappmarker, 1822, i. p. 107), who was not aware of 

 Pallas's prior discovery; but Prof. Nilsson, who had pre- 

 viously met with the bird and thought it to be a variety 

 of E. schoeniclus, a few years later conclusively identified 

 the two supposed species. Zetterstedt during a second 

 journey (Resa genom Umea Lappmarker, 1833) be- 

 lieved he had met with it in various places in Umea and 

 Lycksele Lappmark, but there is reason to suppose him 

 mistaken; for, though Schrader states (Journ. fur Orn. 1853, 

 p. 256) that he found it breeding in Lapland, it never 

 revealed itself to the keen scrutiny of Wolley, Pastor 

 Sommerfelt or Herr Nordvi, and it must be regarded as 

 a mere straggler to that country. Nevertheless a little 

 further to eastward it would seem to be a regular summer- 

 visitant, and Dr. Malmgren has kindly informed the Editor 

 that it breeds every year near Kajana in Finland, in which 

 country it had before been observed by Johann von Wright 

 and Arthur von Nordmann. In the neighbourhood of 

 Archangel also it annually appears and doubtless breeds. 

 The naturalists to whom we owe nearly all our knowledge of 

 the ornithology of Northern and Eastern Siberia — Drs. von 

 Middendorff, von Schrenck and Radde — never found it 

 breeding in the parts of the country which they explored, 

 though they corroborated the statement of Pallas by 

 observing it as a regular bird-of-passagc in various localities. 

 Mr. Swinhoe has met with it in North China;* and it has 

 long since been recorded as a visitor, at least, in Japan. 



As a straggler in autumn or winter it has occurred several 

 times in Southern Sweden, and occasionally in Germany 

 from Altenburg to Austria. Mr. Gatke has obtained it at 

 least four times in Heligoland, and it extends its wanderings 



* In one of his numerous and valuable contributions to Chinese ornithology 

 (Ibis, 1861, p. 255) he stated that this species had occurred to him in Talien 

 Bay, in June or July, 1860, but herein he was, as he has subsequently informed 

 the Editor, in error, having mistaken another species for it. 



