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KUSTK! HUXTIXG. 
Pallas, are j^erfectly distinct and nnmistakeable. They 
both live and nest in the forests of Northern Russia, 
for instance, in the neighboiirhood of Archangel. E. 
rustica is also found in Lapland. There are correct 
figures of the tAvo species in the Appendix to Naumann, 
‘Vogel Deutschlands,’ vol. xiii, pi. 388. These figures 
were taken from individuals Avhich I killed myself in 
the north of Russia, in the neighbourhood of Nidjing- 
Wiliki; the two species have also been taken in the 
Island of Heligoland, and in the middle of Germany. 
It is very difficult to interpret correctly Buffon’s 
figures, pi. enl. 656, figs. 1 and 2. Le Gamue de 
Pi 'ovence, p. enl. 656, fig. 1, has the beak, and is nearly 
of the same colour as E. schcBnicidus var. intermedia, 
JMichahelles ; but the figure is the type of E. provin- 
cialis, Gmelin, and is also the E. durrazzi, Bonaparte, 
that is to say E. schcenicidus , Linnseus. I think that 
is all that can be said of this question, nearly lost to 
Eui’opean ornithology. 
La Mitilene de Provence is perhaps, and will pro- 
bably be f est peut etre et elle sera prohahlement J an 
imperfect representation of E. rustica, Pall $ (Buffon, 
pi. enl. 656, fig. 2.) The form and contour of the 
beak, and the colour of the plumage, are characteristic 
of E. rustica; but Temminck’s description, Man. d’Orn., 
iii, p. 235, is perhaps a phantom of E. fucata, Pallas. 
This is the reason why E. fucata has been considered 
a European species, but it is a very uncertain suppo- 
sition, and a presumption made upon insufficient data. 
I think it possible that Temminck wrote his deserqjtion 
of E. leshia, Man., i, p. 317, from Buffon’s figure. 
The tAvo species, E. rustica and pusilla, Pallas, live 
regularly in the north of Russia, and they have been 
taken many times in Central Europe; but E. fucata, 
