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SNOW BUNTING. Class II. 



fnows. They arrive in that feafon among the 

 Cheviot hills, and in the Highlands in amazing 

 flocks. A few breed in the lad on the fummit of 

 the higheft hills in the fame places with the Ptar- 

 migans j but the greateft numbers migrate from the 

 extreme north. They appear in the Shetland lildLuds^ 

 then in the Orknies, and multitudes of them often 

 fall, wearied with their flight, on vefTels in the 

 Pentland Firth. Their appearance is a certain 

 fore-runner of hard wetfther, and ftorms of fnow, 

 being driven by the cold from their common re- 

 treats. Their progrefs fouthward is probably thus ; 

 Spitzhergen and Greenland^ Hudfon^s Ba)\ the Lap- 

 land Alps, Scandinavia^ Iceland, the Ferroe ifles, 

 Shetland, Orknies, Scotland, and the Cheviot hills. 

 They viflt at that feafon all parts of the northern 

 hemifphere, PruJ/ia, Auftria, and Siberia'^ They 

 arrive lean and return fat. In Auftria they are 

 caught and fed with miller, and like the Ortolan, 

 grow exceflively fat. In their flights, they keep 

 very clofe to each other, mingle moll confufedly 

 together ♦, and fling themfelves colleclively into the 

 form of a ball, at which inftant the fowler makes 

 great havoke among them. 



* Krajn. Aujlria, 372. Bell's Tra-v els, I. 198. 



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