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duke Tunstal, Esq., im the third volume of his Synopsis, 
page 211, No. 61. From these sources a description of 
this bird was copied by Gmelin, Lewin, Montagu, and 
others. Latham and Montagu both express their doubts 
of its bemg a distinct species, no other instances appearing 
to be recorded than those before mentioned. To the 
Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum, by George 'T. Fox, 
Hsq., F.L.S., we are indebted for much valuable informa- 
tion on various zoological subjects, and some particulars of 
the Green-headed Bunting. From this gentleman’s state- 
ment, we learn that the specimen of the Green-headed 
Bunting figured by Brown, while it was alive in the pos- 
session of Mr. Moon, passed, when dead, into the posses- 
sion of Mr. Tunstal, and was preserved for his collection ; 
the same specimen had therefore furnished the materials for 
each of the authors before enumerated. By the kindness 
and influence of Mr. Fox, this specimen was a few years 
ago sent up from Newcastle, and exhibited at a meeting of 
the Linnean Society, and at the Zoological club; and no 
doubt remained in the minds of the members who were 
conversant with birds, that the Green-headed Bunting was 
only a variety of the Ortolan Bunting, the plumage having 
become darker, the colours more intense,—a change fre- 
quently produced by artificial food and long confinement. 
Mr. Selby, who has had opportunities of comparing the 
specimen in the Newcastle Museum with examples of the 
true Ortolan Bunting, has recorded his opinion to the same 
effect. From Mr. Fox we also learn that the Wycliffe 
collection, which came under his inspection, contained a 
specimen of the Ortolan Bunting. Mr. Bewick, in the last 
edition of his beautiful work on British Birds, and in the 
Supplement to a previous edition, has given a figure and 
description of the true Ortolan Bunting. This representa- 
