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PINK 1!TNT1N(;. 
'I'liE Pino Pnntino’ is an inhabitant of Siberia, rangino^ 
thence to Turkey, being found occasionally on the 
shores of the Caspian Sea, Temminck says it is found 
during the winter in Hungary and Bohemia, and ac- 
cidentally in Austria and the Illyrian provinces. Its 
real home is in the north and west of Asia, its 
occurrence in eastern Europe being considered accidental 
by most of our modern ornithologists. That it has, 
however, a real claim to a place in the European 
fauna, seems, I think, settled by the paper of Prince 
C. Bonaparte, in the ^‘Bevue et Magasin de Zoologie” 
for April, 1857, in which he describes a young male 
which was killed in the neighbourhood of Brescia, in 
Lombardy, and sent to him by M. Parzadaki, under 
the name of Emheriza scotata. This bird is described 
in the above paper under the name of Buscarla pity- 
ornis, and figured in the same number of the “Bevue” 
as Emheriza scotata. 
Count Miihle says that he has often seen the female 
and young in Boumelia in the early autnmn. Naumann 
(“^‘Naturgeschichte der Vogel Deutschlands”) says the 
Pine Bunting is found in Siberia, where, from the 
Ural Mountains to the Biver Lena it is very common. 
“It also comes into the southern provinces of European 
Bussia, into Turkey in winter, and, rarely, into Bohe- 
mia, but is never found in the middle or north of 
Germany. It loves rocky places, but not the mountains 
themselves, frequenting more the valleys between them. 
There it must be sought for near the water, on the 
banks of brooks, rivers, and lakes, where it lives among 
the sedges and low bushes. It derives its name from 
the pine woods of Siberia. It remains only a short 
time in the woods, like the Beed Bunting in our 
timber woods.” 
