34 EMBERIZID/E. 



PASSERES. EMBERJZID^. 



EMBERIZA PUSILLA, Pallas*. 

 THE LITTLE BUNTING. 



AT a meeting of the Zoological Society of London on 

 November 8th, 1864, Mr. Gould exhibited a specimen of 

 this species, previously unknown to Britain, which he said 

 had been lately taken in a clap-net near Brighton (Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 377). Soon afterwards Mr. Rowley 

 furnished (Ibis, 1865, p. 113) some additional particulars 

 of its capture, which took place on the 2nd of the month 

 named, and, from his examination of the living bird, not 

 only identified the species to which it belonged, but con- 

 cluded that it had not escaped from captivity. This speci- 

 men has since passed into the possession of Mr. Monk. 



While like the species last described a native of the 

 northern parts of Eastern Europe and of Asia, this 

 small Bunting seems to be far commoner and perhaps to 

 have a somewhat wider range in its autumnal wanderings 

 than Emberiza rustica, as well as to be a regular instead 

 of an occasional visitor to certain localities in Western 

 Europe, though it has doubtless been often overlooked in 



* Reisen durch verscbiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs, iii. p. 697 (1776). 



