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mouth. In Hampshire, it has been met with in plenty, in 
the Isle of Wight, also near Alton and the neighbouring 
parish of Selborne, with which the name of White will ever 
he associated; Thomas Bell, Esq. has known them to breed 
there in the year 1847. In Surrey, near Godaiming, though 
rarely; Wiltshire and Devonshire, where it was first discovered, 
in considerable plenty, by Colonel Montagu, in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Kingsbridge, in the winter of the year 1800. In 
the adjoining county of Cornwall, W. P. Cocks, Esq. records 
in ‘The Naturalist,’ vol. i, page 112, that it is not uncommon 
in the neighbourhood of Falmouth; it occurs also near St. 
Germains, Penzance, and Penryn. It is taken occasionally in 
the neighbourhood of London; in Sussex, near Bye, where 
J. B. Ellman, Esq. shot one in April, 1849; and near Chichester, 
where Mr. Gould observed it in abundance. 
A. E. Knox, Esq. says that it affects the neighbourhood 
of the coast, seldom venturing many miles into the interior; 
that it is common during the summer months near Chichester, 
Bognor, Worthing, and Brighton, but is not met with on 
the northern side of the Downs of West Sussex. William 
Knapp, Esq., of Harts Cottage, Alveston, near Bristol, records 
in the ‘Zoologist,’ page 3174, that it is a constant resident 
in that part of Gloucestershire throughout the year, breeding 
there in the summer; also near Bridgewater, Glastonbury, 
Bath, and Bristol. In the adjoining county of Somerset he 
also relates that he has long known it to be abundant in 
the winter. In Norfolk it appears to be very rare; J. H. 
Gurney, Esq., of Easton, has known one killed in that county 
in the beginning of November, 1849. In Scotland one was 
procured near Edinburgh. 
There is no mention of the occurrence of this bird so far 
north as the Orkneys, in the Natural History of those islands, 
before referred to, published by W. B. Baikie, Esq., M.D., and 
Mr. Heddle. 
The following is a certain author’s theory of the distribu¬ 
tion of this species:—‘The whole plumage is indeed more soft 
and loose, and less fitted for contending with the win ds than 
that of the other Buntings, and much more so than that of 
the species which breeds in the distant north.’ ‘As these 
birds fly much in company with the Yellow Buntings in 
winter, they might be looked for in warmer places a little 
farther to the north than they have hitherto been found; 
though as they are in a great measure corn-land birds m their 
