4 Notes and Comments. 
A HALIFAX DEALER. 
Mr. Hamilton nibbled. He wrote, ‘I could not say how 
long I might be getting one in the flesh, having now four on 
order, but I have very great facilities for offering rare and 
ordinary specimens and send to the Elite of Society and such. 
At the present time I can only supply two Black-headed 
skins for {1 and eggs 1/- each. I always send to first P.O. 
or return cash.’ Enclosed with his letter was a long list of 
skins recently supplied ‘some in the flesh, also eggs, and can 
still supply another lot of each.’ 
A HALIFAX RECORD. 
In reply to a question as to the authenticity of the Halifax 
specimen, (which he had forgotten about when he was called 
upon), Mr. Hamilton replied, ‘The Black-headed Bunting was 
sent alive and not shot, and certainly not like those I also 
offer imported.’ However, on October rst, the Curator of 
the Museum at Hull wrote saying he was not wanting anything 
but Yorkshire birds, so the correspondence ended. 
A LITTLE-BUNTING. 
{However, on October 11th, Mr. Hamilton sent a card :— 
‘I have for disposal something few possess, viz., Live Little 
Bunting caught near Ripon, srand condition on ‘seed, lowest 
price 15/-, now or never. I give you first chance.’ He was 
requested to send the bird on, with an account. But Mr. 
Hamilton was too old a bird to be caught. He wanted cash 
with order as he had bowght the bird from a friend, and could 
obtain much more by advertising. Further correspondence 
made it evident that the bird would not be sent before the 
money was received, as Mr. Hamilton later stated, ‘I have 
to pay beforehand.’ It was also apparent that for the moment 
he was short of money, though he volunteered the statement 
that he had a cheque of £50 to draw in three weeks. 
SOLD. 
Anyway on October 2oth, 15/- was sent for the ‘ Little 
Bunting,’ which arrived on the 27th, quite chirpy, and has 
been alive and well ever since in an ordinary canary’s cage. 
Later, a receipt was sent for 15/- for the Little Bunting. The 
bird was shown at a meeting of the Vertebrate section of the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Daion at Leeds, on November 2tst, 
and, as might have been expected, proves to be no Little 
Bunting at all! * 
* Our Bradford friends are of the opinion that it is the Alario Finch 
(Alario alario, L., the ‘ Berg Canarie’ of South Africa ; and if caught wild, 
is probably new to Europe ! We have compared this with the illustration 
and description in Butler’s ‘ Foreign Finches in Captivity,’ and it is certainly 
this species. 
Naturalist, 
