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that is^ pure white head and breast and black back j and at 

 p. 3912, s. s., Mr. Clark Kennedy mentions a specimen shot 

 on the beach, at the same place, in July 1872, and that it 

 was in full breeding-plumage. 



LAPLAND BUNTING. 



Plectrophanes lappomca. 



This Bunting is somewhat rare in England, and the follow- 

 ing are, I think, all that have been recorded as having 

 occurred in Sussex. In Yarrell's ' British Birds ' (vol. ii. 

 p. 16) it is stated that one was caught on the Downs, near 

 Brighton, in, or previous to, 1827'^. On September 30th, 

 1844, an adult male was netted with some Larks, on the 

 Downs near Brighton, and is now in my collection ; it is in 

 the plumage of summer, but is undergoing a slight change 

 from the advance of the season. 



In the ' Zoologist^ (p. 2383, s. s.) mention is made, by Mr. 

 Bond, of a young male, obtained near Brighton on October 6th, 

 1870 ; and another, also a young male, was caught in a net 

 on the Downs, and purchased by Mr. Swaysland, in the first 

 week of October 1875 (p. 4695, s. s.) Both these last were 

 taken alive. In the volume for 1889, Mr. Brazenor, a bird- 

 stuffer of Brighton, states that he received a male which was 

 caught about a mile from the town, in February of that year, 

 and on September 23rd a female, and on October 10th a male 

 (see pp. 144 and 436) ; and in a letter received in June 1890 



* This species was not recorded in England at all till 1820 ; in that 

 year one was caught in Cambridgeshire and was kept for some months 

 in a cage. See Trans. Linn Soc. xv. p. 156. 



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