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Mr. J. H. Gurney, who saw it in the flesh, 
records (in the Zoologist for 1884, p. 192) that the 
whole of the breast was richly suffused with bright 
rufous, some of the colour extending to the belly 
and eyebrows. ‘The legs were darker than those of 
a meadow pipit. 
See also *‘ Birds of Sussex,” p. 102. 
Mr M. G. Nicholl (formerly of Eastbourne, but 
now of the Ghizeh Museum, Lower Egypt) is strongly 
of opinion that our bird is nothing but an unusually 
fine Meadow Pipit. His opinion is of great weight. 
But the distinctions between the two species are 
very fine, and he did not see the bird when freshly 
killed. 
BLACK-HEADED BUNTING. 
Case onl. 
This is the bird mentioned by the late Mr. 
Gould, in the /bis for 1869, page 128. It was shot 
by the late Robert Brazenor early in November, 
1869, near the Windmill on the Brighton Race- 
course, as it was following a flock of Yellowhammers. 
He brought it to Mr. Gould, who found it to be a 
mature female. 
The species nests in the south western parts of 
Europe and is one of the rarest of the visitors to 
Britain ; it will be seen to be very different in 
appearance from the Reed Bunting, which is often 
called (and very naturally so) the Black-headed 
Bunting. Both sexes of the Reed Bunting have a 
more or less black head, while, in this rare species, 
the head of the female has scarcely any black on it. 
Our bird passed into the late Mr. Monk’s 
collection, with which it was acquired for the Museum. 
See Borrer’s ‘‘ Birds of Sussex,” p. 121. 
RUSIIC. BUNTING 
Case 332. 
Like the last species, this is one of our rarest 
