THE WHITE WAGTAIL tit 
attaches to the Snow Bunting, from the fact that it is (according to 
Linnzus) the only living animal that has been seen two thousand 
feet above the line of perpetual snow in the Lapland Alps. Mention 
of it frequently occurs in books of Arctic travels. I must not 
omit to state that the specimens obtained in Great Britain vary 
so considerably in the proportions of white and tawny in their 
plumage, that there were at one time considered to be three several 
species. In Norfolk, I have seen them in severe weather flocking 
with Larks, among which they make themselves so conspicuous 
by the white portion of their plumage, as to be popularly known 
by the name of ‘ White-winged Larks’. 
THE LAPLAND BUNTING 
CALCARIUS LAPPONICUS 
Crown of the head black, speckled with red ; throat and breast black, a broad 
white band extending from the eye down the sides of the neck; nape 
bright chestnut ; back, wings, and tail variegated with brown, white, and 
black ; under parts white, spotted at the sides with dark brown. Length 
six inches and three-quarters. Eggs pale ochre-yellow, spotted with 
brown. 
Tus bird, as its name denotes, is an inhabitant of high northern 
latitudes; and its occurrence in this country is very rare. A 
few only have been shot, in places remote from each other; and 
in the year 1843, a female was captured by a bird-catcher near 
Milnthorpe, in Westmoreland, and kept for some time in an aviary, 
where it soon became friendly with its companions and took its 
daily meal of rape, canary, or hemp seeds, and now and then a 
sprinkling of oats, with apparent satisfaction. In the Arctic 
regions it inhabits hilly and mountainous districts, and spends 
most of its time on the ground, where it runs in the manner of 
Larks, and where also it builds its nest. The male is said to have 
a pleasing song, combining that of the Skylark and of the Linnet. 
FAMILY MOTACILLIDZ 
THE WHITE WAGTAIL 
MOTACILLA ALBA 
Summer—head, breast, wings and tail variegated with black and white; chin: 
throat, and neck black ; back and scapulars pearl-grey ; side of the neck 
as low as the wings white. Wéintey—chin, throat and neck white, with 
an isolated black gorget. Length nearly seven inches and a half. Eggs 
bluish white, speckled with black. 
THIS species has bred in England more frequently than has been 
supposed. It is not uncommon in Cornwall in spring, and indeed 
