Capt. Sabine's Memoir on the Birds of Greenland, ^-c. 531 



legs were wliite, as were the quill-feathers, but the shafts of these 

 were dark ; the whole of the coloured plumage was more rich and 

 gaudy than in Scottish specimens. In the latter the ash-colour 

 predoniinatos, in the Greenland Ptarmigan the orange. The bars of 

 brown arc also broader and deeper in the Greenland specimens. 



5. Emberiza Nivalis. Snow Bunting- 



E. Nivalis. Gmel. i. 866. Lath. hid. Orn. i. 397- Temm. 188. Faun. Suec. 82. Briin. 

 ms. 145 cS'246. Miill. no. 230. Fabr. I 17. — Snow Bunting. Lalh.Si/n.n'i. l6l.cS- 

 Sitpp. 157. Dr. Zool. I. 444. Jrct. Zool. ii. .355. Mont. Diet. Supp. !)■ Appen. 

 ll'il. Am. Orn. iii. 36. — E. Glacialis. Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 398. — Tawny Bunting. Lath. 

 Syn. iii. 164. Br. Zool. i. 443. Mont. Diet. ^ Supp. — E. Montana. Gmel. i. 86?. 

 Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 398. — Mountain Bunting. Lath. Syn. iii. 165. Br. Zool. i. 445. 

 Mont. Diet. S[ Supp. 



These birds were abundant in Hare Island on the west coast 

 of Greenland, lat. 70" 26', in the month of June, and were breed- 

 ing there. We also saw them on the western coast of Davis's 

 Straits, about the same latitude, in September. Fabricius has well 

 described their nest as formed externally of grass, next of feathers, 

 and lined with the hair of foxes. Eggs four or five, dirty %vhite, 

 spotted with ash-colour and yellowish brown ; the nests are placed 

 in ledges of the rocks. The song of the male bird was noticed fre- 

 quently. Notwithstanding the deference which is due to the 

 general accuracy of Montagu, I have ventured to place the 

 Snow, Tawny and Mountain Buntings together, believing them to 

 be the same species in different states of plumage, the effects of . 

 age, sex, or climate. Those seen at Hare Island exactly corre- 

 spond to the Snow Bunting of Montagu, and those on the opposite 

 coast to the Tawny Bunting. 



6. Sylvia Oenanthe. Wheatear. 

 Motacilia Oenanthe. Gwe/. i.966. Faun.Suec.Q3. Fabr. 12°. Briin. nos. i45 Sf i4G. 

 Miill.no.9.1 A. — S. Oenanthe. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 529. Temm. 135. — Wheatear. Lath. 

 Syn. iv. 465. If Supp. iSi. Br.Zool.i.5^1. Arct. Zool. \\.4iO. Mont. Diet, & Supp. 



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