. A history of British birds . VOL. ir. 34 PASSE RES. EMBERIZID^ Emberiza pusilla, Pallas*.THE LITTLE BUNTING. At a meeting of the Zoological Society of London onNovember 8tli, 1864, Mr. Gould exhibited a specimen ofthis species, previously unknown to Britain, which he saidhad been lately taken in a clap-net near Brighton ( Soc. 1864, p. 377). Soon afterwards Mr. Rowleyfurnished (Ibis, 1865, p. 113) some additional particularsof its capture, which took place on the 2nd of the monthnamed, and, from his examination of the living bird, notonly identified the species to w
. A history of British birds . VOL. ir. 34 PASSE RES. EMBERIZID^ Emberiza pusilla, Pallas*.THE LITTLE BUNTING. At a meeting of the Zoological Society of London onNovember 8tli, 1864, Mr. Gould exhibited a specimen ofthis species, previously unknown to Britain, which he saidhad been lately taken in a clap-net near Brighton ( Soc. 1864, p. 377). Soon afterwards Mr. Rowleyfurnished (Ibis, 1865, p. 113) some additional particularsof its capture, which took place on the 2nd of the monthnamed, and, from his examination of the living bird, notonly identified the species to which it belonged, but con-cluded that it had not escaped from captivity. This speci-men has since passed into the possession of Mr. Monk. While like the species last described a native of thenorthern parts of Eastern Europe and of Asia, thissmall Bunting seems to be far commoner and perhaps tohave a somewhat wider range in its autumnal wanderingsthan Emberiza rustica, as well as to be a regular insteadof an occasional visitor to certain localities in WesternEurope, though it
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