PLECTROPHANES. ZONOTRICHIA. 63 



land, and twice in Caithness. A circumpolar bird, breeding 

 in the Arctic regions of both hemispheres and going south in 

 winter. 



Genus PLECTROPHANES, Meyer, Zusatze u. Ber. z. Mey. 

 u. Wolfs Taschenb. deutsch. Vog. p. 56 (1822). 



Plectrophanes, from 7r\f)KTpov = a spur, and <paivio = I show. 



Plectrophanes nivalis. SNOW-BUNTING. 



Emberiza nivalis, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 308 (1766). 



Emberiza nivalis, Naum. iv. p. 297; Harting, p. 25. 

 Plectrophanes nivalis, Macg. i. p. 460 ; Hewitson, p. 184 ; 



Gray, p. 104; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 470; id. ed. 3, i. 



p. 495 ; Newton, ii. p. 1 ; Gould, iii. pi. 31 ; Dresser, 



iv. p. 261. 

 Snow Bunting, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 425. 



Kivdlis = snowy, from nix, gen. nivis, = snow. 



Breeds sparingly in the highlands and northern isles of 

 Scotland ; a regular winter visitor to many parts of Great 

 Britain. Common in summer round the whole Arctic Circle, 

 straying irregularly southward in winter. 



[Genus ZONOTRICHIA, Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am. vol. ii. 

 p. 493 (1831). 



Zonotrichia, from ZMVTJ = a girdle, and Tpl\ias = one that is hairy, the name 

 being probably suggested by the feathers of the head being, in some species, 

 coloured in a sort of zone. 



Zonotrichia albicollis. WHITE-THEOATED SONG- SPABROW. 



Fringilla albicollis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 921 



(1788). 



Zonotrichia albicollis, Newton, ii. p. 67, note. 



Albicollis = white-necked, albus = white, collum = the neck. 



One was recorded from near Aberdeen, August 17, 1867 

 (Proc. N. H. Soc. Glasgow, i. p. 209, and P. Z. S. 1870, p. 52), 



