. An illustrated manual of British birds . coverts and rump chestnut-brown, with some blackish streakson the upper back ; greater and middle wing-coverts broadly tippedwith white, which forms two conspicuous bars ; secondaries with darkbrown centres and reddish-buff margins ; quills ash-brown : tail-feathers chiefly dark brown, but the exterior pair with the greaterpart of their webs white, and the second pair with a long whitestreak from near the base to the tip of the inner web ; throat andbelly white ; breast broadly banded with chestnut, and flanks streakedwith the same; bill dark brown ab
. An illustrated manual of British birds . coverts and rump chestnut-brown, with some blackish streakson the upper back ; greater and middle wing-coverts broadly tippedwith white, which forms two conspicuous bars ; secondaries with darkbrown centres and reddish-buff margins ; quills ash-brown : tail-feathers chiefly dark brown, but the exterior pair with the greaterpart of their webs white, and the second pair with a long whitestreak from near the base to the tip of the inner web ; throat andbelly white ; breast broadly banded with chestnut, and flanks streakedwith the same; bill dark brown above, yellowish below ; legs pink-ish-yellow. Length 5-4 in.; wing 3-2 in. In the female the headand ear-patches are brownish, mottled with black, and the chestnuttints on the back and chest are less pronounced. The young birdin August has the upper parts warm tawny-brown with blackishstreaks; under parts dull white, streaked with dark brown, andsuffused with rufous-buff, with a faint chestnut tinge on the breastand flanks. EMBERIZIN^. 209. THE LITTLE BUNTING. Emberiza pusilla, Pallas. The only British example yet recorded of this smallest ofEuropean Buntings was brought, on November 2nd 1864, to the lateMr. Swaysland of Brighton, and was identified alive by the late D. Rowley. It was subsequently exhibited before the ZoologicalSociety, and now forms part of Mr. T. J. Monks fine collectionof Sussex birds. Others have probably occurred and been over-looked. The Little Bunting has only once been obtained in Sweden,namely near Lund, on the spring migration of 1815 ; at long intervalsfour or five specimens have been taken in Holland in autumn; andon Heligoland, as Mr. Giitke informs me, more than thirty have beencaptured, chiefly in September and October In the south-east ofFrance it is said to occur almost every autumn, and along theRiviera to Liguria and Northern Italy it is not very uncommon onpassage; while stray examples have been obtained in Germany, Austria,the neighbou
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