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THE SIBERIAN MEADOW-BUNTING. 
EMBERIZA CIOiDES, Brandt. 
In ‘The Ibis’ 1889, pp. 293, 294, Canon Tristram stated that 
Mr. R. W. Chase, of Birmingham, had lately obtained a specimen 
of this species obtained at Flamborough, Yorkshire. It was said to 
have been taken by a fisherman named William Gibbon, in November 
1886, and was mounted from the flesh by Mr. Matthew Bailey, the 
well-known bird-preserver at Flamborough (Yorkshire ‘ Naturalist ’ 
1889, p. 356). I have lately had an interview with Mr. Bailey, 
and the history of the specimen appears to be quite satisfactory. 
The Siberian Meadow-Bunting has not yet been obtained on 
Heligoland, nor in any part of the Continent. Taczanowski says 
that it is widely distributed in Turkestan, Western and Eastern 
Siberia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Corea, and over a great part of China. 
It must be mentioned, however, that the bird which breeds at 
Kiukiang on the Yangtse (see Styan, ‘Ibis’ 1891, p. 354) is dis- 
tinguished by some ornithologists as LZ. castaneiceps, and Seebohm 
(‘Ibis’ 1889, p. 296) expressed an opinion that the Flamborough 
specimen approached the Chinese rather than the typical Siberian 
form. I have examined many examples in the Natural History 
Museum, and, without expressing an opinion as to the very fine 
distinctions, I treat the two forms as constituting one species in the 
present article. 
Mr. Kibort, who collected for Seebohm, obtained this Bunting in 
