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is similar to that of the Skylark, though rather 
neater in construction. The egos, which are from 
four to six in number, have a bluish white ground, 
speckled and spotted with black. At certain 
periods of the year these birds are often taken in 
great numbers in France, where they are fatted for 
the table, and from whence they are imported into 
this country alive. 
BUNTING, SNOW. 
Mountain or Tawny Bunting. Snow FLAKke. 
Emperiza Nivaris, Dont. 
The various names given to this bird by early 
authors, all referrmg to one and the same species, 
have doubtless been suggested by varieties in colour 
and markings, arising from a difference of age, or 
from the effect of season. ‘The Snow Bunting may 
be generally considered as only a winter visitor to 
this country; a portion of the young birds of the 
year, which breed in high northern latitudes, annu- 
ally visiting our Islands. It is only in severe 
weather and late in the winter season that the older 
birds make their appearance. The Snow Bunting 
is an inhabitant, during the breeding season, of the 
Arctic regions, Greenland, Lapland, Hudson’s 
Bay, and other cold northern countries. The nest, 
