. A history of British birds . RUSTIC BUNTING. PASSERES: 29 Emberiza rustica, Pallas*.THE KUSTIC BUNTING. News of the first and hitherto the only known occurrencein England of the beautiful Bunting above figured was com-municated to The Ibis for 1869 (p. 128) by Mr. Gould ina letter dated December 30th, 1868. The specimen, whichis now in the collection of Mr. Monk, was caught nearBrighton, October 23rd, 1867, and shewn while alive to Its portrait has been given by Mr. Gould in his Birds of Great Britain. The proper home of this species is the north-eastern partof Europ
. A history of British birds . RUSTIC BUNTING. PASSERES: 29 Emberiza rustica, Pallas*.THE KUSTIC BUNTING. News of the first and hitherto the only known occurrencein England of the beautiful Bunting above figured was com-municated to The Ibis for 1869 (p. 128) by Mr. Gould ina letter dated December 30th, 1868. The specimen, whichis now in the collection of Mr. Monk, was caught nearBrighton, October 23rd, 1867, and shewn while alive to Its portrait has been given by Mr. Gould in his Birds of Great Britain. The proper home of this species is the north-eastern partof Europe and the most northern part of Siberia. Pallasoriginally described it as arriving in March in the willow-beds of Dauuria, afterwards adding that it is abundantalong the rivers of Transbaikalia, where it sits on theground and trees singing with a voice not unlike that of theKeed-Bunting. Steller observed it in Kamchatka, as Kitt-litz subsequently did. Nearer to us it was shot at Hapa- * Reisen durcli verschiedenc Provinzen des Russischen Reiclis, iii. p. 698 (1776). 30
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