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THE LAPLAND BUNTING. 

 Calcarius lapponicus (Linneeus). 



The Lapland Bunting was first recognized as a visitor to our 

 islands by Selby, early in 1826, when one was sent up from Cam- 

 bridgeshire with some Larks to Leadenhall Market. Subsequently, 

 at long intervals, six or seven examples have been obtained near 

 London, four in Lancashire, one in Westmoreland, one in Durham, 

 one near Whitby on the spring migration, three in Lincolnshire, five 

 — all males — in Norfolk, two near Shrewsbury, and a good many on 

 the coasts of Kent and Sussex, but as yet the bird has not reached 

 Cornwall. On the whole, some forty specimens have been taken in 

 England ; many of them alive, associating with Larks, and almost 

 all on the autumn migration. In Scotland two are said to have been 

 obtained, in Caithness. In Ireland this species was unknown, until 

 Mr. Barrington received a female, found dead at the foot of the 

 light-house on the Fastnet Rock, on October i6th 1S87. 



In summer the Lapland Bunting inhabits the greater part of the 

 circumpolar regions, with the exception of Iceland — to which it is 

 only an occasional straggler from Greenland — and Spitsbergen and 



