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a long flight, and flitting from crag to crag, as already no- 

 ticed, Mr. Macgillivray observes, that they seemed to re- 

 semble young females in their second plumage, but with more 

 grey and less white. 



The whole length of an adult bird about seven inches. 

 From the carpal joint to the end of the first quill-feather, 

 which is the longest in the wing, four inches and one quarter. 



After the preceding part of this subject was in type, I was 

 favoured with a letter from Mr. William Proctor, the curator 

 of the Durham University Museum, who visited Iceland in 

 the summer of 1837, and has very kindly supplied me with 

 several interesting notices of the habits of some of our birds 

 on that island. Of the Snow Bunting it is observed, that 

 " this bird breeds there in June ; the nest, placed among 

 large stones, or in the fissures of rocks, is composed of dry 

 grass, and lined with hair or feathers ; the eggs from four to 

 six in number. The male bird attends the female during 

 incubation ; I have often seen him, when he was coming from 

 the nest, rise up in the air and sing sweetly, with his wings 

 and tail spread like the Tree Pipit. I observed these Bunt- 

 ings frequently perch on some low railing which had been 

 put up to dry fish on, even when fish were hanging on the 

 rails." 



The vignette below represents the breast-bone and foot of 

 the Lapland Bunting, Plectrophanes Lapponica, 



