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hitherto oly known occurrence;” caught in 1867. In 
the same article he narrates how a bird belonging to Mr. 
Keulemans escaped in 1870: and the article concludes 
with a very significant vignette of a young person playing 
with a bird which has been let out of its cage. 
Mr. Seebohm has however been able to record three 
occurrences ; and has established its claim to be placed 
on the British List. 
THE LITTLE BUNTING. 
(EMBERIZA PUSILLA.) 
Admitted to the B.O.U. List. 
Admitted by Newton. 
Admitted by Seebohm. 
Upon the one occurrence when it was taken by a boy, 
who had caught it in a Brighton clap-net, to a Bird- 
stuffer on 2nd November, 1864, it had no marks of captiv- 
ity: My experience is that a large number of the birds in 
my own aviaries, some having a flight of 35 feet, have no 
marks of captivity, but are in as perfect plumage as their 
wild brethren. 
The triumph of this little bird’s enrolment over every 
imaginable objection is the most complete of all; but 
while these Buntings are admitted upon their evi- 
dence ; many persons whose ‘first occurrences’ have been 
rejected must have felt themselves somewhat hardly used. 
