492 EMBERIZID^E. 



terrestrial habits, and their mode of progression on the 

 ground by steps, and not by hopping, indicate their con- 

 nection with the Larks, in the nets with which the 

 specimens here recorded were caught in this country. 

 M. Temminck, it will be observed by the quotation at 

 the head of this article, has not adopted the genus Plec- 

 trophanes of Meyer, but has made two sections of the 

 Buntings, Emberiza, the second of which contains the 

 species ranged by others in the new genus Plectrophanes. 



Pennant, in his Arctic Zoology, says the Lapland Bunt- 

 ing is found in Siberia, and near the Uralian chain. To- 

 wards winter a few migrate southward as far as Switzer- 

 land. M. Necker, in his paper in the Transactions of the 

 Natural History Society of Genoa, mentions that this bird 

 had been taken occasionally with Larks in that vicinity. 



M. Nilsson includes this bird in his Fauna of Scandi- 

 navia. It inhabits the Faroe Islands, Spitzbergen, Green- 

 land, and Iceland in summer, and from thence westward to 

 Hudson's Bay. Some stragglers are occasionally seen in 

 the northern parts of the United States. Sir John Richard- 

 son, in the second volume of the Fauna Boreali Americana, 

 says, " I never met this species in the interior of the fur 

 countries during winter, and I suspect that its principal 

 retreats in that season are on the borders of Lakes Huron 

 and Superior, and to the country extending to the west- 

 ward on the same parallel. In the year 1827 it appeared 

 on the plains at Carlton House, about the middle of May, 

 in very large flocks, amongst which were many Shore 

 Larks, Alauda alpestris, and a few individuals of Plectro- 

 phanes picta. During their stay of ten or twelve days they 

 frequented open spots, where recent fires had destroyed 

 the grass. They came to Cumberland House a few days 

 later in the same season, and there kept constantly in the 

 furrows of a newly-ploughed field. In the preceding year 



