EMBERIZIN^. 



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THE LITTLE BUNTING. 



Emberiza pusilla, Pallas. 



The only British example yet recorded of this smallest of 

 European Buntings was brought, on November 2nd 1864, to the late 

 Mr. Swaysland of Brighton, and was identified alive by the late Mr. 

 G. D. Rowley. It was subsequently exhibited before the Zoological 

 Society, and now forms part of Mr. T. J. Monk's fine collection 

 of Sussex birds. Others have probably occurred and been over- 

 looked. 



The Little Bunting has only once been obtained in Sweden, 

 namely near Lund, on the spring migration of 18 15 ; at long intervals 

 four or five specimens have been taken in Holland in autumn; and 

 on Heligoland, as Mr. Giitke informs me, more than thirty have been 

 captured, chiefly in September and October In the south-east of 

 France it is said to occur almost every autumn, and along the 

 Riviera to Liguria and Northern Italy it is not very uncommon on 

 passage ; while stray examples have been obtained in Germany, Austria, 

 the neighbourhood of Constantinople, Smyrna and Beyrout, as well as 

 twice in Algeria. In summer it is found in Northern Russia as far 

 west as Onega ; and from Archangel and the valley of the Dwina 

 eastward it is abundant, crossing Siberia to the Pacific, and reaching 

 as far as the mountains beyond Lake Baikal, and the Amoor district. 

 In winter it visits China, Burma, the Andaman Islands, and India 

 generally. 



Mr. Seebohm, who found the Little Bunting extremely abundant 



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