BKANDT'S BUNTING. 



EMBERIZA CIOIDES, Brandt. 



Einberiza cioides, Brandt, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb. i. p. 363 ; 

 Tristram, Ibis, 1889, p. 293, pi. 10; Seebohm, Ibis, 

 1889, p. 295 ; Dresser, Supplement, p. 223. 



One occurrence. A specimen was caught by William 

 Gibbon, a fisherman, at Flamborough, south of the 

 headland, in November 1886, and reported by Mr. R. W. 

 Chase, into whose possession it came, through Canon 

 Tristram, at a meeting of the Zoological Society held 

 15th January, 1889. A fuller account of the species 

 was subsequently published by Canon Tristram in 

 'The Ibis' for 1889, followed by a supplementary paper 

 by Seebohm. 



Emberiza cioides is a bird of Siberia, chiefly in the 

 eastern portion, where it is resident, occurring also in 

 Corea, but not in Japan. It has also been found in 

 China and Turkestan by several recent collectors, many 

 of whose published notes are fully given by Mr. Dresser 

 in the supplementary volume to his ' Birds of Europe.' 



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