. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. EMBERIZIN^. 205. BLACK-HEADED BUNTING. EMBERfzA MELANOCiPHALA, Scopoli. The Black-headed Bunting—not to be confounded with our com- mon Reed-Bunting, which is sometimes called by this name—is an inhabitant of the south-eastern portions of Europe; but from time to time it wanders westward, and, owing to the increased attention now paid to ornithology, its presence has been detected on four occasions in Great Britain. The first example, an adult female, identified by the late Mr. Gould and now in the collection of Mr. T. J. Monk of Lewes, was shot
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. EMBERIZIN^. 205. BLACK-HEADED BUNTING. EMBERfzA MELANOCiPHALA, Scopoli. The Black-headed Bunting—not to be confounded with our com- mon Reed-Bunting, which is sometimes called by this name—is an inhabitant of the south-eastern portions of Europe; but from time to time it wanders westward, and, owing to the increased attention now paid to ornithology, its presence has been detected on four occasions in Great Britain. The first example, an adult female, identified by the late Mr. Gould and now in the collection of Mr. T. J. Monk of Lewes, was shot near Brighton while following a flock of Yellow Buntings, about November 3rd 1868. The Rev. J. R. Ashworth has recorded (Zool. 1886, p. 73) the acquisition of an identified speci- men in June or July 1884, stated to have been shot in Nottingham- shire. A third example, said by the dealer from whom it was purchased to have been captured alive near Dunfermline about November 5th 1886, was recognized by the Rev. H. A. Macpherson at the Bird Show of February 15th 1887, held at the Crystal Palace (Zool. 1887, p. 193), where I saw it again in 1888, when in nearly adult male plumage. Mr. W. R. Butterfield has recorded (Zool. 1897, p. 273) the occurrence of an adult female, picked up near Bexhill, Sussex, on November 3rd 1894. The fact that the females and young are dull-coloured birds, and therefore not likely to be imported, favours the assumption that these histories are substantially correct. On Heligoland the Black-headed Bunting has occurred about. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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