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recorded than those before mentioned. Mr. Bewick in the sup- 

 plement to a late edition of his interesting work on British Birds 

 has given a figure to which he has attached the name of the Green- 

 headed Bunting, Emberiza chlorocephala of Gmelinj but with an 

 exact description of the Emberiza hortulana. This representation 

 was taken from a bird caught at sea by the Master of a coasting 

 vessel, and would not probably, on that account, be considered 

 as belonging to the British Fauna. To the Synopsis of the New- 

 castle Museum, by G. T. Fox, Esq., f.l.s., we are indebted for 

 much valuable information on various Zoological subjects, and some 

 particulars of the birds in question. From this author's account 

 we learn, that the specimen of the Green-headed Bunting figured 

 by Brown, while it was alive in the possession of Mr. Moon, 

 passed, when dead, into the collection of Mr. Tunstal. It appears 

 therefore that one and the same bird had furnished the materials 

 for all the various authors before enumerated ; and the doubts of 

 Latham and Montagu thus receive additional strength. By a for- 

 tunate coincidence, this identical Green-headed Bunting, now be- 

 longing to the Newcastle Museum, has at this time been sent to 

 London by Mr. Fox for the inspection of the members of the 

 Linnean Society, and from an examination of it, I am induced to 

 believe, that it is a variety of E. hortulana^ the plumage having 

 undergone a change produced by artificial food and confinement. 



Podiceps rubricollis. Three specimens of this rare Grebe have 

 lately been procured, but neither of them had attained the plu- 

 mage of the adult bird. 



JLarus minutus. A beautiful adult specimen of this extremely 

 rare little Gull was shot on our Eastern coast in January last. 

 The beak was black ; the whole of the white plumage of the neck 

 and breast tinted with a delicate rose colour ; the tarsi and feet 

 bright Vermillion, similar to the colour of the same parts in the 

 Terns, but the interdigital membrane occupied the whole space 

 between the toes. 



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