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and winter; but in Northern France it is rare. In Savoy, according to Bailly, it is found all the 

 year round, but is most numerous during the breeding-season and in the autumn, being rare in 

 winter. De la Fontaine says it has been only observed in the neighbourhood of Luxembourg, 

 on the Moselle, and is not common. It is found on the plains between Schengen and Remich, 

 at Nennig, and near Palzem, where it arrives from the 1st to the 15 th April, and leaves from the 

 15th of October to the 15th November. Godron remarks that in Lorraine it is a rare bird of 

 passage in the autumn. 



Borggreve says it is found in the valley of the Rhine, from Bingen to Remagen, and inhabits 

 there the rocky vineyards during the summer. Our friend Mr. Carl Sachse informs us that this 

 species is tolerably numerous on the central Rhine between Irlich and Linz, on the right shore 

 of the river, where it frequents the vineyards. Its nest is placed in the tangled growth on the 

 vineyard walls, and contains four to five eggs, about the end of May. Mr. E. Schiitt writes 

 (Journal fur Orn. 1861, p. 238) that it breeds in the higher mountain-valleys in the forests of 

 Baden, and is not uncommon in the valleys facing the south-east. It is quiet and not easily 

 observable, except during the breeding-season. It frequents the sides of narrow stony valleys 

 where conifer and non-evergreen trees are scattered round, and towards the west, where Alnus 

 viridis grows, but does not occur in the heights. Except during the nesting-season it is difficult 

 to shoot, hiding in dense thickets, where its call-note, zi zi, may be heard. It does not appear to 

 winter in Baden, but appears back in the valleys about the middle of March. According to 

 Mr. von Kettner it occurs in the valleys of the Murg and Neckar. Ritter von Tschusi procured 

 it at Arnsdorf, in Lower Austria, in September, and further states that he subsequently found it 

 breeding there. Seidensacher states that during the autumn migration it occurs near Cilli, in 

 Styria, and several have been caught near Tiiffer. He does not know if it breeds there, but 

 procured a nest containing four eggs near Hartberg in 1856. 



In the countries bordering both sides of the Mediterranean the Meadow-Bunting is found. 

 In his ' List of the Birds of Southern Spain,' Mr. Howard Saunders records it as " common 

 among the vineyards on the hill-sides, where it breeds." Dresser found it numerous near 

 Barcelona in the spring of 1866 ; and every day a few might be seen hanging up for sale in the 

 market together with other small birds. Major Irby sends us the following note : — " Common in 

 breeding-season on bleak exposed mountain-tops up to a great elevation, particularly at the tops 

 of the Sierra del Nino, near Algeciraz, about 2800 feet, where it breeds. In winter they descend 

 to low ground, still keeping to bleak and bare rocky places, and then are always to be seen at 

 the ' back of the rock ' at Gibraltar. I have seldom, if ever, seen this Bunting perched on a 

 bush, always on rocks or stones, or on the ground, and have several times shot them by mistake 

 when looking for Accentor atyimis, in company with which bird I have occasionally noticed them 

 feeding on the refuse heap at the signal station." Professor Barboza du Bocage says it is 

 common in the northern provinces of Portugal ; but the Rev. A. C. Smith observes that he never 

 met with it in those parts. On the opposite shores of the Mediterranean, Loche writes that it is 

 notK common in Algeria, and that he only observed it in the province of Algiers, near Medeah. 

 Dr. Taczanowski, however, informs us that he found it common in the mountains of Algeria, 

 where, during the winter, it is met with in company with Fringillaria striolata, but always in 

 small companies. Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., during his recent visit to Algeria, observed that it was 



