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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
numbers the yellow hammer." Mr. Meade-Waldo has told 
us that this last remark is true of the village of Boldre. 
It nests every year in the rectory garden at Milton ; 
this year (1904) in a silver fir. 
Throughout the Central Hill district it is universally 
distributed, though scarcer about the downs in the extreme 
northern part ; but Mr. Hudson says — between Romsey 
and Winchester — " I did not know I was in a district where 
this pretty species is more numerous than any other place 
in England." 
In the northern woodlands it is probably overlooked, 
for it has not been noted so frequently here as in other 
districts of the county. 
[Emberiza hortulana. Ortolan Bunting. 
The late Henry Rogers reported a specimen from 
Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight, on August 17th, 1867 
(" Zoologist," 1 867), but we do not think the evidence is 
sufficiently strong.] 
86. Emberiza schoenichis. Reed-Bunting. 
Spear-Sparrow. Black-headed Bunting. 
Reed-Sparrow. 
A resident, and fairly plentiful in all suitable localities 
on the mainland of the county and in the Isle of Wight. 
