EMBERIZINA. 219 
THE LITTLE BUNTING. 
EMBERIZA PUS{LLA, Pallas. 
The only British example yet recorded of this smallest of 
European Buntings was brought, on November 2nd 1864, to the 
late Mr. Swaysland of Brighton, and was identified alive by the late 
Mr. G. D. Rowley. It was subsequently exhibited before the 
Zoological Society, and now forms part of Mr. T. J. Monk’s fine 
collection of Sussex birds, Other wanderers may have occurred 
and been overlooked. 
The Little Bunting has been obtained near Lund, in Sweden, on 
the spring migration of 1815; also once in East Prussia; at long 
intervals four cr five specimens have been taken in Holland; 
two near Antwerp, in Belgium, in autumn; and on Heligoland 
about thirty passed through Gatke’s hands, chiefly in September 
and October. In the south-east of France the bird is said to occur 
almost every autumn, and along the Riviera to Liguria and Northern 
Italy it is not very uncommon on passage, while its wanderings 
extend to Apulia and the Island of Sardinia; and stray examples 
have been obtained in Germany, Austria, the neighbourhood of 
Constantinople, Smyrna and Beyrout, as well as twice in Algeria. 
In summer the bird is found in Northern Russia as far west as 
Onega, while eastward from Archangel and the valley of the Dwina 
it increases as far as the Taimyr Peninsula, and reaches across 
Siberia to the mountains beyond Lake Baikal, and the Amur dis- 
trict. On passage it visits Mongolia, and winters in China, Burma, 
Assam, the Andaman Islands, and the hill-districts of India. 
