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of the families are solely American, viz.
Vireonidae, with a single species seen in Ice-
land, and Icteridae, with 2 species recorded.
Of the 15 Emberizidae species recorded here,
6 have straggled from America. The Lapland
Bunting (Calcarius lapponicus) is excluded
from this paper. Being a migrant that passes
Iceland under migration from Greenland to
Europe it deserves a fuller treatment than is
possible to give here (Fox & Petersen 1993).
The Corn Bunting (Emberiza calandra)
has appeared on Icelandic bird lists of sev-
eral authors. Though there is no substancial
record of the species in Iceland. Snow Bun-
tings (Plectrophenax nivalis), the only
emberizid that breeds in Iceland, in their first
juvenile plumage are known to have fooled
foreign birdwatchers in Iceland.
The data given for each record, are: Local-
ity (place, district, county), number of birds
if more than one, date or time period, sex
(male= karlf., female= kvenf.) and age (imm,
ad) if known, name of observer(s) or refer-
ence, if the record is previously published.
With a single exception, all specimens ob-
tained are preserved as study skins at the
Icelandic Museum of Natural History. They
are designated by a RM-catalogue number
(RM=Reykjavik Museum). The exception re-
fers to a mounted specimen of Emberiza
melanocephala at the Natural History Mu-
seum in the Vestmanna Islands.
All known records till the end of 1991 are
listed. Records from 1981 onwards have
previously been published in annual rare
bird reports in the Icelandic bird magazine
BLIKI. They are all repeated here to make
them more easily available to the present
reader. Some of the oldest records have also
been published previously, while several
others are now reported for the first time.
For full information, reference is made to
the Icelandic text. In the list below only dates
will be given. The species are as follows:
I. Emberiza citrinella. 12 record.s: 4-11 Jan 1942,
4 April 1942, 9 Nov 1945, 9 May 1950, 25 Oct
1968, 2 May 1974, 25 May 1980, 30-31 Oct
1980, 20 Oct 1984, 14 April 1985, 25 Oct 1987,
17-19 April 1989.
2. Emberiza leucocephalos. 1 record: 30 Oct
1944.
3. Emberiza hortulana. 5 records: ca. 15-18 Oct
1939, 26 May 1957, 30 Sept 1968, 22-23 May
1969, 11 Oct 1976.
4. Emberiza pusilla. 3 records: 14 Nov 1965, 30
Oct 1980, 8 May 1988.
5. Emberiza rustica. 3 records: 28 May 1966, 2-3
Oct 1976, 28-29 Oct 1991.
6. Emberiza aureoia. 1 record: 22 Sept 1958.
7. Emberiza melanocephala. 3 records: 15 July
1956, primo Nov 1963, ca. 15-20 Sept 1990.
8. Emberiza bruniceps. 2 records: 3 June 1967, 26
August 1970.
9. Emberiza schoenicius. 13 records (15 in-
dividuals): 9 May 1961,21 March 1963, 15May
1963 (possibly same as21 March), 21 May 1966,
22- 23 May 1969(2birds),28 May 1969,23-24
April 1971, summer 1972 (probable breeding,
see below), 15 May 1977, 24-25 May 1981, 9
Dec 1981, 27 May 1982, 3-4 Oct 1982. - In the
summer 1972 circumstances highly allude
successful breeding. A male appeared at
Kvísker, SE-Iceland, on 10 May and a female
4 days later. During the summer the female was
seen carrying food, but not observed feeding
young. The male disappeared in August, but the
female stayed on till 28 Septcmber and was
accompanied by two birds showing paler
plumage and having weaker voice, presumed lo
be immature birds by the very keen observer.
Interestingly, this same summer the first
breeding of the species was witnessed on the
Faroe Islands (Bloch & Sprensen 1984).
10. Passerella iliaca. 1 record: 5 Nov 1944.
1 l.Zonotrichialeucophrys. 1 record: 4-6 Oct 1978.
12. Zonotrichia albicoilis. 6 records: 10-17 June
1964, 18 June 1974, 5 Nov 1979, 21-29 Nov
1981, 13-14 April 1982, 20 Jan 1990.
13. Junco hyemalis. 1 record: 6 Nov 1955.
14. Passerina cyanea. 2 records: 27 Oct 1951, 20
Oct 1985.
15. Piranga olivacea. 3 records: Nov/Dec 1936
(found dead), 7-8 Oct 1967, 23 Oct 1967.
16. Vireo olivaceus. 5 records: 16 Sept 1951,3 Nov
1960 (found dead), 27 Sept 1973, 4 Oct 1984,
20 Oct 1985.
M.lcterus galbula. 3 records: 8 Nov 1955 (found
dead), 8 Oct 1956, 15 Oct 1971.
18. Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus. 1 record:
23- 24 July 1983.
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