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and single specimens in Cornwall^ Essex, and Ireland ; many 

 other recorded instances are open to considerable doubt. 

 This Crossbill is a native of Siberia and Northern Kussia, but 

 occasionally strays as far as Switzerland in winter. 



Subfamily EmberizinjE. 

 Genus EMBERIZA, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 308 (1766). 



Emberiza, latinized from the Old German Bmbritz ; cf. modern German 

 Ammer, our Yellow Hammer, 



Emberiza melanocephala. Black-headed 

 Bunting. 



Emberiza melanocephala, Scopoli, Ann. I.H.N. 

 p. 142 (1769). 



Emberiza melanocephala, Naum. iv. p. 227; Harting, p. 112; 



Dresser, iv. p. 151. 

 Euspiza melanocephala, Newton, ii. p. 64; Gould, iii. pi. 28. 



Melanocephala = black-headed, from ^jeAas + KeipaXri. 



Has been shot once near Brighton (November 1868) and 

 has also occurred in Heligoland and France. A summer 

 visitor to South-eastern Europe and Persia, wintering in 

 Northern India. 



Emberiza miliaria. Coen-Bunting. 



Emberiza Miliaria, Linnceus, S. N. i. p. 308 (1766). 



Emberiza miliaria, Naum. iv. p. 213 ; Macg. i. p. 440 

 Hewitson, p. 186; Gray, p. 101 ; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 479 

 id. ed. 3, i. p. 504 ; Newton, ii. p. 38 ; Harting, p. 26 

 Dresser, iv. p. 163. 



Crithophaga miliaria, Gould, iii. pi. 26. 



Common Bunting, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 433. 

 JMilmna = that feeds on millet, milium. 



