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121. The Cirl Bunting. 



Nestling. — Down, grey-brown, long and plentiful ; distribution, inner 

 supra -orbital, occipital, spinal, humeral, ulnar, femoral, crural and 

 ventral. Mouth, inside pink, no spots, externally flanges pale yellow. 

 (H.F.W.) 



122. Distribution". — Breeds locally south Warwickshire, bred Leicestershire 

 1920. Pair seen Upper Loch Fyne (Argyll.) June 6, 1920. 



122. The Ortolan Bunting. 



Synonyms : Emberiza chlorocephala Gmelin, Syst. Xat. I, 2, p. 887 

 (1789 — Ex Brown, Illustr. and Latham, near London). Emberiza 

 Tunstalli Latham, Ind. Orn. I, p. 418 (1790 — New name for E. chloro- 

 cephala, same specimen caught near London described). 



Description — Summer. — -A few specimens with a fair amount of body- 

 moult in Jan. and Feb. have been examined, but such a moult may be 

 only occasional. (H.F.W.) 



124. Distribution. — Occurred Isle of May, Mav 1918, May 1921, Shetlands 



May 7 and 11, 1919, May 3 and Nov. 16, 1920, Caithness Mav 3 and 4, 



1920, Ross-shire Sept, 1922. 

 130. The Rustic Bunting. 



Distribution. — One Lerwick, Shetland, Oct. 6, 1920 (Scott, Xat., 1921, 



p. 107). 



136. The Reed-Bunting. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Specimens occurring in Punjab are ap- 

 parently all E. s. pallidior (Ticehurst, Ibis, 1922, p. 653). 



136. 54. Emberiza tschusii compilator Math, and Ired.— The Western Large- 

 billed Reed-Bunting. 



Emberiza compilator Mathews and Iredale, Austr. Av. Record, 

 iv, p. 131 (1920 — substitute name for Emberiza palustris Savi which 

 is preoccupied by E. palustris Frenzel 1801) 

 instead of E. palustris palustris. 



137. 55. Emberiza tschusii tschusii. 

 instead of E. palustris tschusii. 



141. The Snow- Bunting. 



Synonym : Emberiza montana Gmelin, Syst. Xat. 1, 2, p. 867 (1789 — 

 Ex Willughby, Pennant and Latham. " Habitat in Anglia." Descr. 

 of a specimen from Xorthamptonshire). 



145. Migrations. — Substitute following : Winter -visitors arrive regularly 

 but in varying numbers in northern isles and on east coast, end of first 

 week Sept. to 3rd week Nov., chiefly in Oct. and Xov. (early dates 

 Aug. 18, 1912, Flannans, Aug. 29, 1911, Fair Isle, Sept. 1, 1910, Pentland 

 Skerries). Passage -movements down east and west coasts (more regular 

 and of larger numbers down east) and north and west coasts Ireland 

 to end of Xov., and later under adverse weather conditions. Return 

 migration mid-March to mid-April, extending in Scotland and northern 

 isles to mid-May (late dates, June 4, Flannans ; 13, 1886, Aranmore, 

 Donegal ; 14, Fair Isle). Very little evidence of passage-movement 

 from and to south coasts. (X.F.T.) 



152. The Calandra Lark 



Juvenile. — Feathers of whole upper-parts, tail-feathers except outer- 

 most, wing-coverts and wing-feathers evenly and conspicuously margined 

 buff to whitish and blackish subterminally, outermost tail-feathers 

 mostly white as in adult but tinged buff ; lores and stripe over eye 

 bumsh-white ; ear-coverts buff-brown spotted dusky-black ; feathers 

 of black patches on sides of lower-throat narrowly edged whitish ; 

 feathers of breast with round black penultimate spots ; rest of under- 

 pays as adult, (H.F.W.) 



