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PLECTROPHANES LAPPONICA. THE LAPLAND 

 LARK-BUNTING. 



LAPLAND FINCH. 



Friugilla lapponica. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 317. 



Fringilla lapponica. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 440. 



Bruant montain. Emberiza calcarata. Temm. Man. d'Orn. L 322. 



Lapland Lark-Bunting. Plectrophanes Lapponica. Selb. Illustr. I. 283. 



Emberiza Lapponica. Lapland Bunting. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. I. 128. 



Male in winter with the top of the head black spotted toith red, 

 the fore part of the neck greyish-white spotted with black, the 

 icings with two transverse white bands. Female with the top 

 of the head reddish-grey, spotted with black ; the throat white ; 

 the breast grey, spotted with black. 



Male in summer with the top of the head, the cheeks, fore-neck, 

 and part of the breast pure black, the lower parts white, 



Male. — The Lapland Lark- Bunting is nearly of the same 

 size as the Snowflake, which it resembles in form and propor- 

 tions, the wings, however, although rather long and pointed, 

 being shorter, and the bill more like that of a Finch, being 

 short, conical, with the upper mandible nearly as large as the 

 lower, its marginal outline but slightly angulate, but the palate 

 furnished with a prominent knob, which is attenuated ante- 

 riorly. The feet are short and of moderate strength ; the claws 

 long, slightly arched, laterally grooved, compressed towards 

 the end, that of the hind toe much elongated. The plumage 

 is soft and blended in winter, in summer rather compact above. 

 The first quill is longest ; the primaries have their points 

 rounded ; the secondaries, except the inner three, emarginate. 

 The tail is rather long, and distinctly emarginate. 



The bill is brownish -yellow, tipped with dusky ; the feet 

 brown, the claws black. The upper part of the head is black, 



