374 THE BIEDS OF HELIGOLAND 



The breeding range of this species does not appear to extend 

 beyond Greece, Asia Minor, Palestine, and Turkestan. 



176. Meadow Bunting [ZIPAMMER]. 

 EMBERIZA CIA, Linn. 



Ember iza da. Naumann, iv. 270. 



Meadow Bunting. Dresser, iv. 205. 



Bruantfou. Temminck, Manuel, i. 215, iii. 227. 



As regards this species there is very little to report from Heligo- 

 land; about fifty years ago Reymers on one occasion obtained a 

 rather young bird, which he sold to Brandt of Hamburg ; at that 

 time I had not commenced collecting. I had for many years 

 given descriptions of the bird to my gunners, but without result, 

 until at last my son Ludwig, on the 8th of March 1882, brought me 

 the long-desired spoil in the form of a splendid old male in the 

 purest summer plumage. He had shot the bird on the fields of 

 the Upper Plateau. 



The breeding range of this species extends through the whole 

 of Europe, and in Asia to at least the eastern boundary of Turkestan. 

 In Germany it advances as far as the middle of the Rhine, and in 

 the south is found nesting as far as Asia Minor and Palestine. 



177. Pine Bunting [FICHTENAMMER]. 

 EMBERIZA PITYORNIS, Pallas. 1 



Emberiza pityornis. Naumann, iv. 276. 



Pine Bunting. Dresser, iv. 2 1 7. 



Bruant a couronne lactee. Temminck, Manuel, i. 310, iii. 224. 



This Bunting has only once been captured in Heligoland, I 

 myself having been so fortunate as to catch an example, a very 

 fine old male, in the throstle-bush of my garden on the 16th of 

 April 1881. 



It is a handsome bird, its size exceeding that of the Yellow 

 Bunting, and rather approaching that of E. melanocephala. The 

 total length of the freshly killed bird was 6'69 ins. (170 mm.) ; the 

 length of the whig, 3'70 ins. (94 mm.) ; length of tail, 3'07 ins. (78 

 mm.) ; length of tail uncovered by wings, 142 ins. (36 mm.). 



The eggs of this bird, which I owe to the kindness of Herr 

 Tancre, in their markings of fine lines and small dashes completely 



1 Emberiza leucocephcda (Gmel. ). 



