CTRL BUNTING.
I- EtENCH YELLOW-HAMM Kit. Ill, \CK-THROATED YELLOW-HAMMER.
Embcrita cuius, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK.
Embcrisa elcathorax, BECHSTEIN.
Emberiza— ? Cirhts— ?
THIS neat bird is abundant in the southern parts of the European
continent, and occurs also in Asia Minor; in the former in Germany,
Switzerland, Thuringia, and along the shores of the Mediterranean,
also in Crete and Corfu, and in France, but in the latter only, it is
said, when 'en route.'
In \ orkshire, Air. Allis has recorded one taken near York, and
Dr. Neville Wood another obtained in the year 1837, at Oampsall Hall,
near Doncaster; a third was shot by T. Strangwaycs, Esq., at the Leases,
near Bedale, in the North Riding, on the 5th. of February, 1851; and
a fourth by Richard Strangwayes, Esq., also in the month of February,
near St. Agatha's Abbey, Richmond, Yorkshire; the same gentleman
saw two others, both males, on the 29th. of December, 1850, on Askew
moor, near Bedale. In Berkshire, I myself procured one in the grounds
of East Garston Vicarage, near Lambourne: this was in the summer
of the year 182(>, or 1827; there were a pair, and my attention was
first directed to them by the peculiarity of their note, uttered from
the top of an elm tree, which struck me as something different from
anything I had heard before, there being a peculiar sharpness in it:
I also procured their nest and two eggs. In Dorsetshire, some years
afterwards, I shot another out of a flock of Yellow-hammers, in a
field bordered by the sea-shore, near the village of Charmonth. In
Hampshire, it has been met with in plenty, in the Isle of Wight,
also near Alton and the neighbouring parish of Selborne, with which
the name of WHITE will ever be associated; Thomas Eell, Esq. has
known them to breed there in the year 1847. In Surrey, near
<iodalming, though rarely; Wiltshire and Devonshire, where it was