462 EMBERIZA CINEREA. E. CIKLUS. 



EMBERIZA CINEREA, Strickland. 



[§ 2499. 0//^.— Buriiabat, Asia Minor, 10 May, 1S89. From 

 Dr. Kriiper, through Mr. Dresser. 



Taken on the hills near Smyrna by Dimitri Elevtheroglou. I do not know 

 that Dr. Kriiper has anywhere published his discovery of the nest and eggs of 

 this species. P'or several years he was unsuccessful in finding them (Journ. 

 fiir Ornith. 1875, pp. 268-270; and Griechische Jahreszeiten, ii. p. 199).] 



EMBERIZA CIRLUS, Linuseus. 

 CIRL-BUNTING. 



^ 2500. Two.—Mq of Wight. From Mr. C. A Bury, 1844. 



Mr. Bury kindly sent with these the following note : — " The eggs 

 of the Cirl-Bunting are from two different nests ; but I have every 

 reason to tell you they are both genuine, and Mr. Dawson, a better 

 judge, pronounced them to be so this afternoon. Of one I have the 

 fellows and the nest; and I know that before I placed them in my 

 collection I satisfied myself fully on the point. The other agrees 

 better with the description given of the Cirl-Bunting's egg ; but did 

 not come into my possession till after it was blown, and it is from its 

 appearance and measurement alone that 1 judge it to be genuine, 

 for I do not, as of the other, know its history." 



§ 2501. 2^wo.—Is\g of Wight. From Mr. J. F. Dawson, 



[1845]]. 



[Judging from appearance only, I ohould say decidedly that all the four eggs 

 last mentioned were Yellowhammer's ; but, in deference to the authority of 

 of the gentlemen from whom they were obtained, I venture to leave them 

 here.] 



^2502. One.— From the late Mr. J. D. Hoy, through Mr. 

 James H. Tuke, 1846. 



^ 2503. r^'o.— From M. Perrot, 184G. 



