144 BRITISH BIRDS. 
EMBERIZA PUSILLA. 
LITTLE BUNTING. 
(Puate 15.) 
Emberiza pusilla, Pall. Reis. Russ. Reichs, iii. p. 697 (1776); et auctorum pluri- 
morum—Salvadori, Gray, Radde, Schrenck, Jerdon, Swinhoe, Dresser, Newton, 
&e. 
Emberiza schceniclus, var. minor, Nélss. Orn. Suec. i. p. 170 (1817). 
Emberiza durazzi, Bonap. Icon. Faun, Ital. Uce. pl. 35. figs. 1 & 2 (1832-41). 
Buscarla pusilla (Pall.), Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. ix. p. 163 (1857). 
Cynchramus pusillus (Paill.), Degl. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. 1. p. 327 (1867). 
Notwithstanding the fact that this rare little Siberian Bunting visits 
Heligoland almost every year, only a single example has been obtained in 
the British Islands. It was exhibited at a meeting of the Zoological 
Society by the late Mr. Gould, who stated that it had been taken in a 
clap-net near Brighton (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 377). In “The Ibis’ for 
1865 (p. 113), Mr. Dawson Rowley furnished further particulars of its 
capture; and from him we learn that it was brought to Swaysland, the 
Brighton bird-stuffer, by a boy on the 2nd of November, 1864, and that 
it bore no evidence of ever having been in captivity. It is now in Mr. 
Monk’s collection. 
The Little Bunting is an Arctic bird, occasionally breeding on the tundra 
above the limit of forest-growth, and rarely found in summer south of the 
Arctic circle, except at considerable elevations. Its range extends from 
the valley of the Dwina eastwards to the Pacific. It is common near 
Archangel; Harvie-Brown and I found it in considerable numbers in the 
valley of the Petchora, as far north as lat. 68°; Finsch observed it north 
of Obdorsk up to the limit of forest-growth (about lat. 673°); I found it 
common in the valley of the Yenesay up to lat. 71°; Middendorff obtained 
it on the Taimur peninsula, in the same latitude, and on the Stanovoi 
Mountains; and in the St.-Petersburg Museum are skins collected by 
Baron Maydell in the Tschuski Land. It also breeds in some of the 
mountain districts of Eastern Siberia; Dybowsky found it during summer 
in the mountains near Lake Baikal; and Schrenck obtained a nest on the 
Lower Amoor on the 17th of June, before the snow had all melted. It 
passes through Mongolia, South Siberia, and Turkestan on migration, and 
winters in North India, Burma, and China. It has not been recorded 
from Kamtschatka or Japan; but Captain Wardlaw Ramsay obtained a 
single example on the Andaman Islands. In Europe its appearance during 
winter may almost be cousidered accidental ; but it has been found once 
in Sweden, occasionally in Holland, and frequently in the south of France. 
Several specimens are recorded from North Italy; and it has been met 
