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Genus PLECTROPHANES, Meyer. 



SNOW-BUNTING. 



Flectrophanes nivalis (Linn^us). H.N., i., p. 308 



(1766). 

 Snow Flake and Tawny Bunting, Boys, 1792. 



The Snow-Bunting, like the last-mentioned species, 

 comes to this county during severe winters, and keeps 

 generally to the sea-coast of East Kent. 



The Eev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, writing in 1844, 

 stated that it was " common in Eomney Marsh." 



In the winter of 1847, Mr. J. W. Hulke shot a Snow- 

 Bunting at Deal, and on November 4, 1848, he shot 

 another out of a small flock on the beach. Both were in 

 the plumage of the Tawny Bunting. 



Mr. J. Jenner Weir, writing on February 28, 1867, 

 says: "I was fortunate enough to obtain this morning a 

 most beautiful specimen of the male Snow-Bunting ; the 

 bird is in variegated plumage of spring, is very healthy 

 and active, and I trust will form an interesting addition 

 to my aviary." 



There are specimens in the late Mr. W. Oxenden 

 Hammond's collection in the Canterbury Museum, pro- 

 cured at Dover, but according to his note in the Zoologist 

 of 1883, he secured several specimens in the beautiful 

 white plumage in the neighbourhood of Wingham in 

 November, 1882. 



It is an occasional visitor, according to Mr. G. Dowker, 

 to the Stourmouth district, and also to the Eainham 

 Marshes, according to Mr. W. Prentis. 



In Mr. T. Hepburn's Birds of North Kent, he says: 



