56 RUSTIC BUNTING. 



Pallas, are perfectly distinct and unmistakeable. They 

 both live and nest in the forests of Northern Russia, 

 for instance, in the neighbourhood of Archangel. E. 

 rustica is also found in Lapland. There are correct 

 figures of the two species in the Appendix to Naumann, 

 'Vogel Deutschlands,' vol. xiii, pi. 388. These figures 

 were taken from individuals which 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 Gavoue de 

 Provence, p. enl. 656, fig. 1, has the beak, and is nearly 

 of the same colour as E. schceniculus tar. intermedia, 

 Michahelles; but the figure is the type of E. provin- 

 cialis, Gmelin, and is also the E. durrazzi, Bonaparte, 

 that is to say E. sclicenicidus , Linnseus. I think that 

 is all that can be said of this question, nearly lost to 

 European ornithology. 



La Mitilene de Provence is perhaps, and will pro- 

 bably be (est peui etre et elle sera probablemcnt ) 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 description 

 of E. lesbia, Man., i, p. 317, from Buffon's figure. 



The two 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. 



