Capt. SABINE’s Memoir on the Birds of Greenland, &c. 531 
legs were white, as were the quill-feathers, but the shafts of these 
were dark ; the whole of the coloured plumage was more rich and 
gaudy than in Scottish specimens. In the latter the ash-colour 
predominates, in the Greenland Ptarmigan the orange. The bars of 
brown are also broader and deeper in the Greenland specimens. 
5. Emperiza Nivatis. Snow Bunting. 
E. Nivalis. Gmel. i. 866. Lath. Ind. Orn, i. 397. Temm.188. Faun. Suec. 82. Brün. 
nos. 245 & 246. Mull. no. 250. Fabr. 117.— Snow Bunting. Lath. Syn. ii. 161. & 
Supp. 157. Br. Zool. i. 444. Arct. Zool. ii. 355. Mont. Dict. Supp. & Appen. 
Wil. Am. Orn. ni. 36.—E. Glacialis. Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 398.—Tawny Bunting. Lath. 
Syn. iii. 164. Br. Zool. i. 442. Mont. Dict. & Supp—E. Montana. Gmel. i. 867. 
Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 398.— Mountain Bunting. Lath. Syn. iii. 165. Br. Zool. i. 445. 
Mont. Dict. & Supp. 
These birds were abundant in Hare Island on the west coast 
of Greenland, lat. 70? 26', in the month of June, and were breed- 
ing there. We also saw them on the western coast of Davis's 
Straits, about the same latitude, in September. Fabricius has well 
described their nest as formed externally of grass, next of feathers, 
and lined with the hair of foxes. Eggs four or five, dirty white, 
spotted with ash-colour and yellowish brown ; the nests are placed 
in ledges of the rocks. The song of the male bird was noticed fre- 
quently. Notwithstanding the deference which is due to the 
general accuracy of Montagu, I have ventured to place the 
Snow, Tawny and Mountain Buntings together, believing them to 
be the same species in different states of plumage, the effects of 
age, sex, or climate. Those seen at Hare Island exactly corre- 
spond to the Snow Bunting of Montagu, and those on the opposite 
coast to the Tawny Bunting. 
| 6. SYLVIA OENANTHE. Wheatear. 
Motacilla Oenanthe. Gmel.i.966. Faun. Suec.93. Fabr. 122. Brün. nos. 245 & 246. 
Miill.no.274.—S. Oenanthe. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 529. Temm.135.—Wheatear. Lath. 
Syn. iv. 465. & Supp. 182. Br. Zool.i. 521. Arct. Zool. ii. 490. Mont. Dict. & Supp. 
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