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a female was taken in Battersea Fields, near the 

 Eed House. Both these birds are now in the col- 

 lection of Mr. Bond.* 



SNOW BUNTING, Emberiza nivalis. A rare winter 

 visitant from the north. A male Snow Bunting was 

 shot near Edgeware in the winter of 1840. In 

 October, 1862, I purchased from a birdcatcher a 

 pair which he had taken near Kingsbury Eeservoir, 

 in company with Bramblings. And an adult male 

 was shot at Kingsbury on the 8th February, 1865, 

 by Mr. Charles Wharton, as recorded by him in ' The 

 Zoologist' for April, 1865. This last-named was 

 feeding in company with some Larks and Meadow 

 Pipits among the dead weeds collected on the edge 

 of the Keservoir. The call-note of the Snow Bunting 

 is something like that of the Linnet. 



COMMON BUNTING, Emberiza miliaria. Provin- 

 cial, Corn Bunting and Bunting Lark. Eesident 

 throughout the year; but not being so generally 

 distributed in the county as the Yellow Bunting, it 

 is less entitled to be called " common." The name 

 Corn Bunting is more appropriate. It generally 

 renders itself conspicuous by perching on the top- 

 most twig of an oak or small hedgerow tree, whence 

 it utters its peculiar monotonous cry. 



Its flight somewhat resembles that of the Lark, 

 and its resemblance in colour to that bird, together 



* Vide ' Zoological Journal, vol. v., pp. 103, 1 04. 



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