192 BRITISH BIRDS. WITH THEIR NESTS AND EGGS. 



ADDENDA. 



Emberiza melanocephala, p. TOO. I understand, from a letter received Feb. 

 6th, from Mr. W. C. J. Ruskin Butterfield, of St. Leonards, that, among some 

 birds in the possession of Mr. Daniel Francis, he recently recognised an example 

 of this species. It was caught in an exhausted condition by one of the Coast- 

 guardsmen at Bexhill-on-sea, on Nov. 3rd, 1894. Mr. Butterfield also calls my 

 attention to the occurrence of the large race of the Bullfinch in Yorkshire in 

 1894 ; but, as I do not consider P. major can ever with certainty be distinguished 

 from large examples of our familiar Bullfinch, I did not think the fact worthy 

 of special notice. It is quite possible that these so-called ' Russian Bullfinches ' 

 may have been the produce of typical English ones, just as my frequently so-called 

 ' Russian Goldfinches ' undoubtedly were born of Kentish parents. 



In completing the Passeres it may perhaps be as well to mention that single 

 individuals of one or two species not previously recorded have recently been shot 

 upon our coasts, such as Proregulus viridanus, the Greenish Willow Warbler, obtained 

 in Lincolnshire, on Sept. 5th, 1896, and Phyltoscopus proregitlus, Pallas' Willow 

 Warbler, obtained in Norfolk, on Oct. 3ist, 1896. It seems very doubtful whether 

 either of these species will ever earn a fair title to the name of British Birds. 



END OF VOLUME TWO. 



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