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in some respects, with which I am acquainted. — Fig. 

 %h, plate III. 



SHORT-TOED l^KKK.-^^Calandrella brachydactyla ; 

 formerly, Alaiida brachydactyla). 



A bird much resembling the Wood Lark in appear- 

 ance, but of very casual occurrence. 



WHITE-WINGED JuKKK—{Melanocorypha Sibirica). 

 Hardly seen more than once or twice in Britain. 



FAMILY XVI.— EMBERIZIDiE. 



LAPLAND 'S\5WYY^Q^—(^Plectrophanes Lapponica). 



Has been met with in Britain, but on very few 

 occasions. 



SNOW BUNTING— (P/^r/r^///^;^^^ nivalis). 



Tawny Bunting, Mountain Bunting, Snow-flake or 

 -fleck. — Only a winter visitor in this country, though 

 often coming in not very scanty numbers. I have 

 frequently seen them on our North Yorkshire moors, 

 and have heard of them as seen in flocks of large 

 dimensions. One informant told me he had seen as 

 many as two hundred together. It breeds in countries 

 very far to the North, and, like other indigenes of the 

 North, is subject to considerable variations in colour 

 according to season. So much so, that the bird, which 

 used to be called Tawny Bunting in its summer 



