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Gexus CALCARIU8 Beciisteix. 

 CALCARIU8 LAPPONICUS (Linn.). 



-'23. Lapland Longspur. (536) 



Bill, moderate, luuutfed, l)iit with a little tuft of feathers at the base of 

 the rictus ; hind claw, straightish, with its digit longer than the middle toe 

 and claw. Adnit male : — Wliole head and throat, jet black, bordered with 

 huffy or whitish, which forms a postocular line, separating the black of the 

 crown from that of the sides of the head ; a Inroad chestnut cervical collar ; 

 upper parts in general, lilackish, streaked with buffy or whitish that edges all 

 the feathers ; below, whitish, the Ijreast and sides black streaked ; wings, 

 dusky, the greater coverts and inner secondaries edged with dull bay ; tail, 

 dusky, with an oblique white area on the outer feathers ; bill, yellowish, 

 tipped with black : legs and feet, black. Winter males show less black on the 

 head, and the cervical chestnut duller; the/emale and i/oiiiig ha,\e no continuous 

 black on the liead, and the crown is streaked like the back, and there are traces 

 of the cervical collar. Length, 6-Oi ; wing, S^-Si : tail, 2i-2f. 



Hab. — Northern portions of the northern hemisphere, lireeding far north ; 

 in North America south, in winter, to the Northern United States, irregularly 

 to the Middle States, accidentally to South Carolina, and abundantly in the 

 interior to Kansas and Colorado. 



