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and Mongolia. It was caught alive in November 1886, during 

 an easterly gale, at the foot of Flamborough cliffs, south of the 

 headland, near to the lighthouse, by Wm. Gibbon, fisherman, 

 from whom it was purchased by Mr. Matthew Bailey, the well- 

 known naturalist of Flamborough. In June 1888, Mr. R. W. 

 Chase of Birmingham saw the specimen at Mr. Bailey's house, 

 bought it from him, and, not recognising it as any known 

 British bird, forwarded it to the late Canon H. B. Tristram, 

 who identified it as Emberiza cioides, a species new to Europe. 

 It was afterwards exhibited by Canon Tristram at a meeting 

 of the Zoological Society on i5th January 1889, and was 

 also seen by Prof. Newton. 



Seebohm remarked that it resembles the Chinese sub-species 

 E. cioides castaneiceps, more than the typical Siberian race. 

 (See W. Eagle Clarke, Nat. 1889, pp. 79, 113, 334, 356; Proc. 

 Zool. Socy. 1889, p. 6 ; and Ibis, 1889 PP- 2 93> 2 95- The 

 species was figured for the first time in the latter journal, 

 plate x.) 



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Emberiza rustica (Pallas). 



Accidental visitant, of extremely rare occurrence. 



This eastern species, which in summer inhabits northern 

 Europe and Asia from Archangel to Kamchatka, occurring 

 annually as far west as Finland, and has a winter home in 

 China, has only been known to occur four times in the British 

 Islands, one of these being in Yorkshire, on I7th September 

 1881, at Easington in Holderness. 



The bird when first observed was on the beach close to 

 the sea, and on being followed up, took a short flight, alighting 

 on some thistles for a moment, and then returned to the 

 beach, where it was captured. It was given to Mr. P. W. Loten 

 of Easington, who set it up for his collection, but, not knowing 

 the value of the capture, failed to note the sex, and it remained 

 unnamed until Mr. W. Eagle Clarke identified it on the 7th 



