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and single specimens in Cornwall, Essex, and Ireland ; many 

 other recorded instances are open to considerable doubt. 

 This Crossbill is a native of Siberia and Northern Russia, but 

 occasionally strays as far as Switzerland in winter. 



Subfamily EMBERIZIN^:. 

 Germs EMBEEIZA, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 308 (1766). 



Emberiza, latinized from the Old German Embritz ; cf. modern German 

 Ammer, oar Yellow Hammer. 



Emberiza melanocephala. BLACK-HEADED 

 BUNTING. 



Emberiza melanocephala, Scopoli, Ann. I. H. N. 

 p. 142 (1769). 



Emberiza melanocephala, Naum. iv. p. 227; Harting, p. 112; 



Dresser, iv. p. 151. 

 Euspiza melanocephala, Newton, ii. p. 64; Gould, iii. pi. 28. 



Melanocephala = black-headed, from /ueXas + Ke0aAr/. 



Has been shot once near Brighton (November 1868) and 

 has also occurred in Heligoland and France. A summer 

 visitor to South-eastern Europe and Persia, wintering in 

 Northern India. 



Emberiza miliaria. CORN-BUNTING. 



Emberiza Miliaria, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 308 (1766). 



Emberiza miliaria, Naum. iv. p. 213 ; Macg. i. p. 440 ; 



Hewitson, p. 186; Gray, p. 101 ; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 479; 



id. ed. 3, i. p. 504 ; Newton, ii. p. 38 ; Harting, p. 26 ; 



Dresser, iv. p. 163. 



Crithophaga miliaria, Gould, iii. pi. 26. 

 Common Bunting, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 433. 

 Mttwrla that feeds on millet, mllmm. 



