192 BRITISH BIRDS WITH THEIR NESTS AND EGGS. 
ADDENDA. 
Emberiza melanocephala, p. 100.—I understand, from a letter received Feb. 
6th, from Mr. W. C. J. Ruskin Butterfield, of St. Leonards, that, among some 
birds in the possession of Mr. Daniel Francis, he recently recognised an example 
of this species. It was caught in an exhausted condition by one of the Coast- 
guardsmen at Bexhill-on-sea, on Noy. ard, 1894. Mr. Butterfield also calls my 
attention to the occurrence of the large race of the Bullfinch in Yorkshire in 
1894; but, as I do not consider P. major can ever with certainty be distinguished 
from large examples of our familiar Bullfinch, I did not think the fact worthy 
of special notice. It is quite possible that these so-called ‘Russian Bullfinches’ 
may have been the produce of typical English ones, just as my frequently so-called 
‘Russian Goldfinches’ undoubtedly were born of Kentish parents. 
In completing the Passeres it may perhaps be as well to mention that single 
individuals of one or two species not previously recorded have recently been shot 
upon our coasts, such as Proregulus viridanus, the Greenish Willow Warbler, obtained 
in Lincolnshire, on Sept. 5th, 1896, and Phylloscopus proregulus, Pallas’ Willow 
Warbler, obtained in Norfolk, on Oct. 31st, 1896. It seems very doubtful whether 
either of these species will ever earn a fair title to the name of British Birds. 
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