BRANDTS BUNTING. 
EMBERIZA CIOIDES, Brandt. 
Emberiza cioides, Brandt, Bull. Ac. St. Pétersb. i. p. 363 ; 
Tristram, Ibis, 1889, p. 293, pl. 10; Seebohm, Ibis, 
1889, p. 295; Dresser, Supplement, p. 223. 
One occurrence. A specimen was caught by William 
Gibbon, a fisherman, at Flamborough, south of the 
headland, in November 1886, and reported by Mr. R. W. 
Chase, into whose possession it came, through Canon 
Tristram, at a meeting of the Zoological Society held 
15th January, 1889. A fuller account of the species 
was Subsequently published by Canon Tristram im 
‘The Ibis’ for 1889, followed by a supplementary paper 
by Seebohm. 
Emberiza cioides is a bird of Siberia, chiefly in the 
eastern portion, where it is resident, occurring also in 
Corea, but not in Japan. It has also been found in 
China and Turkestan by several recent collectors, many 
of whose published notes are fully given by Mr. Dresser 
in the supplementary volume to his ‘ Birds of Europe.’ 
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