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SO this Bimting can recall the song of the Shore-Lark, 

 to which Seebohm compared it, and also the Snow- 

 Bunting, but by a stretch of imagination one might pick 



NEST OF LAPLAND BUNTING, BUILT UNDEK A TUFT OF 



MOSS IN THE GOLCHIKA MAKSHES. 



(Photographed by Maud D. Haviland.) 



out half a dozen more. All the separate shakes and 

 turns are interspersed with simple notes and musical 

 sounds, and the whole is poured out so fast that the 

 hearer has only the impression of a loud toneless gush 

 of melody that bubbles out suddenly, and as suddenly 

 ceases to flow. It is very pretty to hear in a country 

 where singing voices are scarce, but I doubt if we should 

 think much of it if we heard it from a telegraph pole in 



