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GIRL BUNTING. 
FRENCH YELLOW-HAMMER. BLACK-THROATED 
YELLOW-HAMMER. 
Emberiza cirlus , Pennant. Montagu. Bewick. 
“ elcathorax , Bechstein. 
Emberiza —.? Cirlus —- 
Thts neat bird is abundant in the southern parts of the 
European continent, and occurs also in Asia Minor; in the 
former in Germany, Switzerland, Thuringia, and along the 
shores of the Mediterranean, also in Crete and Corfu, and in 
France, but in the latter only, it is said, when ‘en route.’ 
In Yorkshire, Mr. Allis has recorded one taken near York, 
and Dr. Neville Wood another obtained in the year 1837, at 
Campsall, near Doncaster; a third was shot by T. Strangwayes, 
Esp., at the Leases, near Bedale, in the North-Riding, on the 
j 5th. of February, 1851; and a fourth by Richard Strangwayes, 
Esq., also in the month of February, near St. Agatha’s Abbey, 
Richmond, Yorkshire; the same gentleman saw two others, 
both males, on the 29th. of December, 1850, on Askew Moor, 
near Bedale. In Berkshire, I myself procured one in the 
grounds of East Garston vicarage, near Lam bourne: this was 
in the summer of the year 1826, or 1827; there were a pair, 
and my attention was first directed to them by the peculiarity 
of their note uttered from the top of an elm tree, which 
struck me as something different from anything I had heard 
before, there being a peculiar sharpness in it: I also procured 
their nest and two eggs. In Dorsetshire, some years after¬ 
wards, I shot another out of a flock of Yellow-hammers, in 
a field bordered by the sea-shore, near the village of Char- 
