146 PINE BUNTING. 



The Pine Bunting is an inhabitant of Siberia, ranging thence to 

 Turkey, being found occasionally, according to Pallas, on the shores 

 of the Caspian Sea during winter. Temminck says it is found during 

 the winter in Hungary and Bohemia, and accidentally in Austria and 

 the Illyrian Provinces. Its real home is in the north and west of 

 Asia, its occurrence in eastern Europe being considered accidental by 

 most of our modern ornithologists. It extends to Northern China. 



Count Miihle says that he has often seen the female and young in 

 Roumelia in the early autumn. Naumann (" Naturgeschichte der Vogel 

 Deutschlands ") says the Pine Bunting is found in Siberia, where, 

 from the Ural Mountains to the River Lena it is very common. 

 "It also comes into the southern provinces of European Russia, into 

 Turkey in winter, and, rarely, into Bohemia, but is never found in 

 the middle or north of Germany. It loves rocky places, but not the 

 mountains themselves, frequenting more the valleys between them. 

 There it must be sought for near the water, on the banks of brooks, 

 rivers, and lakes, where it lives among the sedges and low bushes. 

 It derives its name from the pine woods of Siberia. It remains only 

 a short time in the woods, like the Peed Bunting in our timber 

 woods." 



Salvadori ("Fauna d'ltalia") writes: — "This bird sometimes descends 

 in Italy during the autumnal passage, but I do not know that it has 

 ever been met with lower than the western parts. The only persons 

 who mention it in the Italian lists are Balsamo-Crivelli; Perini, who 

 in the course of many years had two specimens taken in the Veronese; 

 Brambilla, who says that it is very rare; Pavese, and I myself, who 

 have recorded an individual seen by me in the collection of Signor 

 de Negri, in Geneva, which was taken in the neighbourhood of 

 Savona. In the country about Bergamo it is captured more fre- 

 quently than anywhere else in Italy. I found one, taken alive with 

 nets, which is now preserved in the collection of Count Camozzi, 

 of Bergamo; another in that of Signor Seminati, of Caprino, in the 

 neighbourhood of which place it was taken; a third, also killed in 

 the neighbourhood of Bergamo, is preserved in the museum of Turin." 



I quote the following from the "Siberische Reise" of Dr. Von 

 Schrenck: — "The known varieties of this bird, in relation to the 

 white on the top of the head and the white spot on the neck, as 

 well as with respect to the stronger or weaker reddish brown spots 

 oil the white under parts, is very apparent in some Amoor specimens 

 now lying before us. In other respects they agree with the well- 

 known descriptions of Pallas, as well as West Siberian specimens in 

 our museum. It is worthy of remark that E. pithyornus comes into 



