EMBERIZA. — CALCAMUS. 33 



Emberiza palustris. Laeqe-billbd 

 Eeed-Bdnting. 



Emberiza palustris Savi, Om. Tosc. ii. 1829, p. 91: 



Tuscany^ 



Pyrrhulorhyncha palustris {Savi) ; Slarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. 



1888, p. 473. 

 Emberiza pyrrhuloides palustris Nicoll, Bull. B. O. C. xxi. 1908, 



p. 104. 



Palustris=oi the marsh. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor, only 

 once recorded : Lydd, Kent, May 1908. 



General Distribution. — Southern Europe, inhabiting Italy, 

 Sicily, southern France, and Spain, and represented by the 

 following subspecies farther east. 



Emberiza palustris tschusii. Eastekn Large- 

 billed Eeed-Buntjng. 



Emberiza sclioeniclus tschusii iSeiser Sf Almdsy, Aquila, 

 V. 1908, p. 122 : Dobruja, Roumania. 



Emberiza palustris tschusii Seiser Sf Aim. ; Hartert, British 

 Birds, vi. 1912, p. 154. 



Tsehiisii, named after the Austrian naturalist Viktor Eitter von Tsohuai zu 

 Sohmidhoffen. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Eare Visitor, once 

 recorded : Rye, Sussex, April 1912. 



General Distribution. — Breeds in the delta of the Danube 

 and from southern Russia eastwards to Lenkoran on the 

 south-west shores of the Caspian. 



Genus CALCARIUS Bechstein, Ornith. Tasch. 1803, p. 130. 

 Type : C. lapponicus (Linn.). 



Calcanus= furnished with a spur, calear. 



