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weather these birds reach Virginia and Carolina. Mr. Bul- 

 lock found them on the table-land of Mexico ; and Mr. 

 Gould, in his Birds of Europe, says that Captain King 

 brought specimens from the Straits of Magellan. It is, there- 

 fore, probable that this bird inhabits the colder portions of 

 the southern as well as the northern continent of America, 

 migrating in both instances towards the equator in winter. 



Pursuing our bird in North America, Dr. Richardson says, 

 that it " arrives in the fur-countries along with the Lapland 

 Bunting, with which it associates, and being a shyer bird, is 

 the sentinel, and alarms the flock on the approach of danger. 

 It retires to the marshy and woody eastern districts to breed, 

 extending its range to the shores of the Arctic Sea. Mr. 

 Hutchins states that its nest is placed on the ground, and 

 that it lays four or five white eggs, spotted with black." They 

 appear on the shores of Hudson's Bay in May, and proceed 

 from thence still further north to breed. We are indebted to 

 Mr. Audubon for the best account of the habits of this bird 

 during summer, the most interesting period of its existence. 

 In one of those arduous voyages which this indefatigable 

 naturalist undertook to complete his Ornithological Biography 

 of North America, this bird was found on the shores of the 

 coasts of Labrador, and its various peculiarities are thus de- 

 scribed.* 



" Although in the course of our previous rambles along the 

 coast of Labrador, and among the numberless islands that 

 guard its shores, I had already seen this Lark while breeding, 

 never before that day did I so much enjoy its song, and 

 never before I reached this singular spot, had I to add to my 

 pleasures that of finding its nest. Here I found the bird 

 in the full perfection of plumage and song, and here I had an 

 opportunity of studying its habits, which I will now endea- 

 vour to describe." 



* Ornithological Biography, vol. ii. p. 570. 



