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Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. A 

 male was taken at Fair Isle, Shetlands, Oct. 1911. 



General Distribution. The Pine-Bunting breeds in Siberia 

 from the Urals to the mouth of the Amur. In winter 

 it moves southwards and westwards and is found in 

 China, Mongolia, Turkestan, and occasionally in central and 

 southern Europe as far as southern France and Heligoland. 



Emberiza cirlus. GIRL BUNTING. 



Emberiza Cirlus Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i. 1766, 



p. 311 : S. Europe. 

 Emberiza cirlus Linn.; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. GO; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. 1888, p. 525; Sounders, 



Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 211. 



Cirlus, like the German Zirl-ammer, is from the Italian zirlare=to chirp, 

 to cry zi, zi (</. Klein, Hist. Av. Prodr. 1750, p. 91). The bird is still called 

 Zizi in Piedmont; and Salvador! (Fauna d'ltalia, p. 138) gives Zivolo, Zigolo, 

 etc., as its common Italian names. 



Distribution in the British Islands. Resident and local ; 

 chiefly a native of the southern counties of England, less 

 frequent in the Midlands and in Wales, rarely met with as far 

 north as Yorkshire. A Rare Visitor to Scotland and Ireland. 



General Distribution. The Cirl Bunting breeds in southern 

 Europe from Spain to Turkey and as far north as France, 

 south-western Germany, and in the Crimea ; also in Asia 

 Minor, the Mediterranean Islands, and north-w T estern Africa. 

 It is a partial migrant in the northern portions of its range. 

 In Sardinia and Corsica a resident race has been described. 



Emberiza melanocephala. BLACK-HEADED 



BUNTING. 

 Emberiza melanocephala Scopoli, Annus i. Histor. Nat. 



17G9, p. 142 : Carniola. 



Emberiza melanocephala Scopoli ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, 

 p. 59 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. 1888, p. 503 ; Sounders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 205. 



2JelanocephaZa=black-headed, from [ie\as 



