EMBERIZINA. 217 
THE RUSTIC BUNTING... 
EMBERIZA RUSTICA, Pallas. 
The first example of the Rustic Bunting known to have occurred 
in England was caught near Brighton, on October 23rd 1867, and 
was shown alive to the late Mr. G. D. Rowley; it is now in the 
collection of Mr. T. J. Monk of Lewes. A second, identified and 
recorded by Mr. W. E. Clarke (Zool. 1881, p. 465), exhibited at a 
meeting of the Zoological Society, and now in the York Museum, 
was shot on the Holderness coast, Yorkshire, on September 17th 
1881, the same day on which a young bird of this species was 
obtained at Heligoland by Gatke. The late Lord Lilford stated 
(Zool. 1883, p. 33) that a young male was sent to him in the 
flesh, which had been taken by a bird-catcher at Elstree reservoir, 
near London, on November roth 1882. 
The Rustic Bunting is an eastern species which is gradually 
extending its range westward, and is now known to wander to 
Sweden, while it occurs annually and even breeds in East Finland. 
Gatke possessed eight specimens taken on Heligoland (two of them 
in April), and as many more have been obtained there; while 
stragglers have occurred from time to time in Holland, Germany, 
Austria, the south of France, the north of Italy and twice in the 
south-east (Apulia), and once near Constantinople. From Arch- 
angel eastward it is found, increasingly, across Siberia, visiting 
Kamchatka and even Bering Island; while the late Dr. von Mid- 
kendorff found it paired and apparently nesting in the Stanovoi 
