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Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Identifier: cu31924000047815 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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EMBERIZIN^. 219
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THE LITTLE BUNTING. Emberiza PUsfLLA, Pallas. The only British example yet recorded of this smallest of European Buntings was brought, on November 2nd 1864, to the late Mr. Swaysland of Brighton, and was identified alive by the late Mr. G, D. Rowley. It was subsequently exhibited before the Zoological Society, and now forms part of Mr. T. J. Monk's fine collection of Sussex birds. Other wanderers may have occurred and been overlooked. The Little Bunting has been obtained near Lund, in Sweden, on the spring migration of 1815 ; also once in East Prussia; at long intervals four or five specimens have been taken in Holland; two near Antwerp, in Belgium, in autumn ; and on Heligoland about thirty passed through Gatke's hands, chiefly in September and October. In the south-east of France the bird is said to occur almost every autumn, and along the Riviera to Liguria and Northern Italy it is not very uncommon on passage, while its wanderings extend to Apulia and the Island of Sardinia; and stray examples have been obtained in Germany, Austria, the neighbourhood of Constantinople, Smyrna and Beyrout, as well as twice in Algeria. In summer the bird is found in Northern Russia as far west as Onega, while eastward from Archangel and the valley of the Dwina it increases as far as the Taimyr Peninsula, and reaches across Siberia to the mountains beyond Lake Baikal, and the Amur dis- trict. On passage it visits Mongolia, and winters in China, Burma, Assam, the Andaman Islands, and the hill-districts of India.

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