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is recorded by Temminck and Degland as liaving been 
seen during its migration in tlie Crimea. I do not, 
liowever, find any notice of its occurrence tliere by Dr. 
Carte or Captains Blakiston and Irby. Latliam says it 
inhabits the pine forests of Katberinesburg, and that it 
is not met witli on the poplars and willov/s in the islands 
of the Irtish and other rivers in Siberia. Middendorff 
notices its occurrence in his Siberische Beise ; and 
Brehm, in his description of eggs in Biideker’s work, 
has the following notice: — 
“This pretty little Bunting dwells among the bushes 
which overgrow the low meadow laird of Siberia, from 
the Ural to Kamtschatka. It builds an half-globular 
nest away from the ground, of sedges, grasses, or rushes, 
and lines its inside with feathers and hairs. It lays 
five eggs of a very pretty short oval shape, the ground- 
work of which is greyish green, with grey and blackish 
veins, black brown bordered points, having round spots 
marked upon them.” In the plate to which the notice 
refers, four varieties are figured, from which I have 
selected two. ]MiddendorfF also figures the egg. His 
drawing resembles most the lighter of the tivo varieties 
in my plate. 
The male has the top of the head a rich maroon, 
and the rump is of the same colour, though more mot- 
tled; back and wings are broAvn, shaded Avith longitu- 
dinal patches of a darker tint; the upper tail feathers 
are broAvn; those round the base of the neck and cheeks 
deep black; throat and chest canary yelloAV, being 
separated by a band forming a half-circle of the same 
rich maroon Avhich marks the top of the head ; abdomen 
and flanks light yellow; under tail coverts Avhite; pri- 
maries and secondaries the same uniform broAvn as the 
tail; tertials darker brown, edged Avith rufous; the 
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