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GRANIVOK^E. 

 Family FBINGILLID^F. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Emberiza. (Linnceus.J 



LITTLE BUNTING. 



Emberiza pusilla. 



Emberiza pusilla, Pallas; Voy., 1776, Zoog., 42, No. 206. 



" " Naumann; Vog., t. 382, 1 & 2. 



" " Gould; B. of Asia, B. of G. B., vol. iii., 



pi. 25. 

 Gmelin; Syst., 1788. 



" " Schlegel; Revue, 1844. 



" " Degland; Ornith. Eur., 1849. 



" " Bonaparte; Consp. Avium Eur., 1850. 



" lesbia, Bonaparte. 



Bruant Nain, Of the French. 



Zzvergammer, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Occiput, cheeks, and part of throat ferruginous, with 

 two distinct, deep black, irregular bands, extending from the base of the 

 upper mandible over each eye, to the nape, where they turn round, and in 

 some specimens form a more or less complete collar round the neck, mingled 

 with white or fawn-colour; throat more or less white, mingled with the fer- 

 ruginous colour of the occiput and cheeks; base of the inner web of most 

 external tail feather white, that of the second the same, but only half as 

 wide ; first and third primaries of nearly equal length, the second the longest 

 in the wing. Length of male five inches and three tenths; carpus to tip 

 three inches; tail two inches and a half; beak two fifths of an inch; tarsus 

 seven tenths of an inch. Female a little less. 



The Little Bunting is the last of the closely-allied forms which 

 inhabit the northern parts of Russia and Eastern Siberia; and it will 

 also close my list of this interesting genus. It lives and breeds in the 

 neighbourhood of Archangel, and has been taken frequently, according 



