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When the female is searching far and wide for materials for 

 the nest, she is always followed by the male, which entertains her 

 by his lively chirping and song, also when she is busy in the nest 

 arranging the collected materials, but he takes no active part neither 

 in the nest building nor in the brooding of the eggs. 



All day and night he can with but short interruptions be seen 

 near the nest diligently singing, either sitting on his elevated favorite 

 place ore rising some few meters in the air. 



Eggs were found from June 6'^ to Julv W^\ The number in a 



Fig. 20. Nest of Snow-Bunting (removed from its site). 



clutch was most frequently 5 or 6, seldom 4. In a certain case I 

 found a Snow-Bunting breeding on 3 eggs. 



The young ones were exclusively fed with insects, which were 

 brought with equal perseverance by both the parents day and night. 

 When the young ones are 11, to 12 days old they will leave the 

 nest, although they are hardly able to fly. 



At the middle of July 1 saw and heard young Snow-Buntings 

 everywhere sitting on stones and rocks; for some few days yet they 

 were fed by the parents. 



At the end of July I observed the first old male in autumn 

 moult; this came on so suddenly, that the birds were almost unable 



