498 Mr. Yarrell on some rare British Birds. 



year ia Cambridgeshire, and in the collection of the Rev. Dr. 

 Thackeray, the Provost of King's College ; and the specimen now 

 first mentioned. 



Upupa Epops. A young bird of the year was shot by my friend 

 William Thompson in his garden at Hamworthy near Poole in the 

 latter part of September. The injury this bird received from the 

 gun was slight, and on being approached it drew back the head, 

 erected its crest, and lowered the wings, making a show of great 

 resistance, but ultimately allowed itself to be taken up without 

 attempting to inflict the slightest wound. This part of our coast 

 appears to be one of the most favorite haunts of the Hoopoe in this 

 country. In the collection of the Rev. Mr. Barclay at Swanage, 

 ■which I had the pleasure of seeing last autumn, are three Hoopoes, 

 all killed in that vicinity. 



Procellaria Leachii. A specimen was shot near Chelsea in 

 October last. This bird as well as the Proc. pelagka usually 

 occurs during the stormy period of the autumnal equinox, and has 

 lately become a frequent visitor. So numerous were the stormy 

 Petrels on one occasion that more than a hundred were procured 

 within a few miles of Yarmouth during the unusually high windy 

 weather that occurred in the month of October 1824. 



Sylvia Dartfordiensis. Two specimens of this diminutive warb- 

 ler came to my knowledge in November last ; one killed at Finchley 

 in Middlesex, the other shot on a common near Portsea, Hants. 



Emberiza hortulana. A beautiful example of this bird was 

 killed near Manchester, also in November last. As this species 

 may be considered an addition to our list of British Birds, and has 

 been confounded with the Emberiza chlorocephala of Gmelin and 

 others, I hope to be excused some further detail. 



The Green-headed Bunting was first described and figured by 

 Brown in his Illustrations of Zoology from a living specimen then 

 in the possession of Mr. Mooti in Hyde Park, Dr. Latham de- 

 scribes a Green-headed Bunting in the collection of M. Tunstal, 

 Esq., in the 3d volume of his Synopsis, p. 211, No. 61. From these 

 sources a description of this bird was copied by Gmelin, Lewin, 

 Montagu, &c. Latham and Montagu both express their doubts 

 of its being a distinct species, no other instances appearing to be 



