20 BIRDS OF ICELAND 



which are black. The female is brown spotted with 

 darker brown and black, except the secondaries, which 

 are white. In autumn dress all ages and sexes put 

 on, by moult, a good deal of rust-colour on the upper 

 parts, and it is in this dress that they visit England. 



Calcarius lapponicus (Linn.). 

 Lapp Bunting. 



Native name: ' Sportitlingur ' (according to Professor 

 Newton, but I have never heard this name ; 

 ? Sportitlingur). Grondal merely gives ' Snjotit- 

 lingur ' and ' Solskrikja/ the names of the Snowr 

 bunting, which indicate the company in which it 

 is found. 



A rare wanderer. Faber {Prodromus, p. 15) records 

 an occurrence in the south without giving date or 

 locality. There is a specimen in the British Museum 

 from Iceland, an adult male, from the Gould Collec- 

 tion ; and Grondal mentions a third ( VcrzeicJiniss, 

 p. 358) without locality, as having been shot in the 

 winter of 1877. It may very easily be commoner 

 than the above records would indicate, as it no doubt 

 associates with Snow-buntings, and is probably usually 

 mistaken for a bird of that species. 



Sturnus vulgaris, Linn. Starling. 



Native name : ' Stari,' or ' Starri ' ; the former is as old 

 as the Younger Edda. 



