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forms wliicli inliahit the northern parts of Russia and 
Eastern Siberia; and it will also close my list of this 
interesting genus. It lives and breeds in the neigh- 
bourhood of Archangel, and has been taken frequently, 
according to Blasius, in Central EurojJe. The specimen 
from which Schlegel drew his lengthened description 
in the Revue Critique, was captured in the neighbour- 
hood of Leyden, on the 18th. of November, 1842. It 
is included by Professor Blasius and Herr Giitke 
among the birds found in Heligoland. It is said by 
Pallas to be very common in the Daouria, and is re- 
ported by Mr. R. Swinhoe, as occurring in occasional 
flocks in Amoy (China) during the winter. — (Ibis, vol. 
ii, p. 61.) 
It is hardly necessary to enter into any discussion about 
the specific identity of this bird, after the very clear 
and convincing remarks of Professor > Blasius, which I 
published in the notice of E. rustica. M. He Selys- 
Longchamps ex23ressed a doubt, in a letter to Hegland, 
about the identity of SchlegePs sjDecimen with the bird 
described by Pallas, and referred it rather to the female 
of E. fucata. Upon this Degland remarks: — “Having 
seen in the museum of Leyden, the Emheriza pusilla 
of M. Schlegel, I cannot, with my distinguished friend, 
refer it to E. fucata; it has not the same kind of 
beak. This organ, instead of being convex above, and 
a little bent, is straight and awl-shajied, j^ointed, and 
slightly reversed at its tij). Its plumage is decidedly 
different.” 
Bona 2 )arte, in his “Consj^ectus of Euroj)ean Birds,” 
says of this species: — “It is a good s]3ecies of Siberia, 
which has been taken accidentally even in Italy; that 
of Schlegel is the true one, and neither of the two 
figures in my Italian fauna ought to be referred to it.” 
