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How curious to think that Gilbert White never 
distinguished between these two species, although it is 
probable that he heard the cirl on every summer day 
during the greater part of his life." 
When the Rev. C. A. Bury wrote an account of the 
birds of the Isle of Wight for Adams' History, about 
the year 1856, he found this bird "not uncommon, but 
seldom found far from the sea. It is a late breeder, 
but occasionally, at least, rears a second brood." 
Mr. A. G. More, writing about i860, describes it as 
" resident in the Isle of Wight, generally distributed all 
over the island, especially near the coast. One of the 
commonest hedge birds about Brading and Bembridge." 
At the present time Dr. Cowper says it is fairly 
common throughout the island, and Mr. Poole writes 
that it may be found in some numbers in certain favoured 
localities, and he has seen it frequently in Whiteclift 
Bay. 
In the New Forest, Wise gives only two localities for 
the nest, namely, Wootton and Brockenhurst, but at the 
present time it certainly extends all along the southern 
edge of that district, from Christchurch to Exbury and 
Hythe. 
Mr. Meade- Waldo writes as follows : " I should consider 
the cirl bunting a characteristic Hampshire bird, certainly 
in the districts with which I am best acquainted. It is a 
common inhabitant of all the surroundings of the New 
Forest, although it does not penetrate much into the forest 
itself; its favourite haunts seem to be wooded fields, with 
a certain amount of high hedgerow timber, from the top of 
which its monotous trill, somewhat resembling the first part 
of the song of the yellow hammer, may be heard from March 
to November. In its favourite districts it certainly out- 
