White- 
crowned 
Bunting. 
Tapland 
finch. 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
but their Summer drefs may be called elegant, 
though not gay. They live long in confinement, 
have naturally a pleafing note, and when in com- 
pany with Canary birds foon imitate their fong. 
I have kept many of them in cages in the fame 
room with Canary birds, and always found they 
fung in Winter as well as in Summer; but even 
in confinement they change their plumage accord- 
ing to the feafon, the fame asin a wild flate. This 
fpecies of bird feem fond of the coldeft regions, 
for as the Spring advances they fly fo far North 
that their breeding-places are not known to the 
inhabitants of Hudfon’s Bay. In Autumn they 
return to the South in large flocks, and are fre- 
quently fhot in confiderable numbers merely as 
a delicacy ; at that feafon, however, they are by 
no means fo good as when they firft make their 
appearance in Spring. 
WHITE-CROWNED Buntinc. This fpecies is 
inferior in fize to the former, and feldom make 
their appearance till June. They breed in moft 
parts of the Bay, always make their nefts on the 
ground, at the root of a dwarf willow or a goofe- 
berry-bufh. During the time their young are in 
a callow ftate they have a delightful note, but as 
foon as they are fledged they become filent, and 
retire to the South early in September. 
LAPLAND Fincn. This bird is common on 
Hudfon’s Bay, and never migrates Southward in 
the coldeft Winters. During that feafon it gene- 
rally frequents the juniper plains, and feeds on the 
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