THE SNOW BUNTING 95 



with hair and feathers and even vegetable down. The eggs, 

 six or seven in number, are bluish or yellowish white in 

 ground colour, spotted and blotched with rich reddish-brown, 

 and occasionally pencilled with a few streaks of still darker 

 colour. The eggs are not at all typical of a Bunting's, being 

 not nearly so much streaked, and resemble somewhat those of 

 the Common Bunting, but are of course much smaller. 



