36 PINE BUNTING. 



The Pine Bunting is an inhabitant of Siberia, ranging 

 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 "Revue 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 Emberiza scotata. This bird is described 

 in the above paper under the name of Buscarla pity- 

 ornis, and figured in the same number of the "Revue" 

 as Emberiza scotata. 



Count Miihle says that he has often seen the female 

 and young in Roumelia in the early autumn. jNTaumann 

 ("Naturgcschichte der Vogel Deutschlands") says the 

 Pine Bunting is found in Siberia, where, from the 

 Ural Mountains to the River Lena it is very common. 

 "It also comes into the southern provinces of European 

 Russia, 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 Rccd Bunting in our 

 timber woods." 



