GIRL BUNTING. 



FRENCH YELLOW-HAMMER. BLACK-THROATED 

 YELLOW-HAMMER. 



Emberiza drlus, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



" elcathorax, BECHSTEIN. 



Emberiza ? Cirlus ? 



THIS neat bird is abundant in the southern parts of the 

 European continent, and occurs also in Asia Minor; in the 

 former in Germany, Switzerland, Thuringia, and along the 

 shores of the Mediterranean, also in Crete and Corfu, and in 

 France, but in the latter only, it is said, when 'en route.' 



In Yorkshire, Mr. Allis has recorded one taken near York, 

 and Dr. Neville Wood another obtained in the year 1837, at 

 Campsall, near Doncaster; a third was shot by T. Strangwayes, 

 Esq., at the Leases, near Bedale, in the North-Hiding, on the 

 oth. of February, 1851; and a fourth by Richard Strangwayes, 

 Esq., also in the month of February, near St. Agatha's Abbey, 

 Richmond, Yorkshire; the same gentleman saw two others, 

 both males, on the 29th. of December, 1850, on Askew Moor, 

 near Bedale. In Berkshire, I myself procured one in the 

 grounds of East Garston vicarage, near Lambourne: this was 

 in the summer of the year 1826, or 1827; there were a pair, 

 and my attention was first directed to them by the peculiarity 

 of their note, uttered from the top of an elm tree, which 

 struck me as something different from anything I had heard 

 before, there being a peculiar sharpness in it: I also procured 

 their nest and two eggs. In Dorsetshire, some years after- 

 wards, I shot another out of a flock of Yellow-hammers, in 

 a field bordered by the sea-shore, near the village of Char- 



