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Ember iza palustris. LARGE- BILLED 

 REED-BUNTING. 



Emberiza palustris Savi, Om. Tosc. ii. 1829, p. 91 : 

 Tuscany. 



Pyrrhulorhyncha palustris (Savi) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. 



1888, p. 473. 

 Emberiza pyrrhuloides palustris Nicoll, Bull. B. O. C. xxi. 1908, 



p. 104. 



Palustris=of the marsh. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor, only 

 once recorded : Lydd, Kent, May 1908. 



General Distribution. Southern Europe, inhabiting Italy, 

 Sicily, southern France, and Spain, and represented by the 

 following subspecies farther east. 



Emberiza palustris tschusii. EASTERN LARGE- 

 BILLED REED- BUNTING. 



Emberiza schoeniclus tsclmsii Reiser $ Almdsy, Aquila, 

 v. 1908, p. 122 : Dobruja, Rouinania. 



Emberiza palustris tschusii Reiser Sf Aim. ; Hartert, British 

 Birds, vi. 1912, p. 154. 



Tschusii, named after the Austrian naturalist Viktor Ritter von Tschusi zu 

 Schmidhoffen. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Bare Visitor, once 

 recorded : Rye, Sussex, April 1912. 



General Distribution. Breeds in the delta of the Danube 

 and from southern Russia eastwards to Lenkoran on the 

 south-west shores of the Caspian. 



Genus CALCARIUS Bechstein, Ornith. Tasch. 1803, p. 130. 

 Type : C. lajyponicus (Linn.). 



Caledm<s = furnished with a spur, calcar. 



