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DISTRIBUTION. England. One. Male, near Lydd (Kent) May 

 26, 1908 (ut supra). 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Italy, Sicily, south France, and east 

 Spain. Allied forms in Greece and parts of west Asia. 



CALCARIUS LAPPONICUS 



55. Calcarius lapponicus lapponicus (L.) THE LAPLAND 

 BUNTING. 



FBINGILLA LAPPONICA Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 180 (1758 

 Lapland). 



Plectrophanes lapponicus (Linnaeus), Yarrell, n, p. 15 ; Calcarius lap- 

 ponicus (Linnaeus), Saunders, p. 223. 



DISTRIBUTION. Great Britain. Observed in recent years with 

 some regularity in autumn in Norfolk, Fair Isle, and Flannan Isles. 

 Has occurred many English counties as vagrant and with fair 

 regularity in Kent, and probably other east coast counties. In 

 Scotland has occurred (besides in Flannans and Fair Isle) at 

 intervals in Shetlands and Orkneys, Caithness, Sule Skerry and 

 Isle of May. Very rarely observed in spring, exceptionally in 

 summer and occasionally in winter. Ireland. Three : Fastnet 

 Rock (Cork) Oct. 16, 1887; Kilbarrack (Dublin) Jan., 27, 1906, and 

 Dec. 12, 1907. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Arctic and sub-arctic latitudes of the 

 Old and New Worlds ; in winter to middle Europe, rarely to Italy ; 

 in Asia to China. Allied forms in Kamtschatka and Alaska. 



PLECTROPHENAX NIVALIS* 



56. Plectrophenax nivalis (L.) THE SNOW-BUNTING. 



EMBERIZA NIVALIS Linnseus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 176 (1758 Lapland, 



etc.). 



Plectrophanes nivalis (Linnseus), Yarrell, n, p. 1 ; Saunders, p. 225. 



DISTRIBUTION. England, Wales and Ireland. Winter-visitor (Oct. 

 to March and April). Regular but in varying numbers, chiefly to 

 coast, but occasionally inland, and rather commonly on hills in 

 Wales. Occasionally stops until May, and fairly frequently in 

 summer on north and west coasts Ireland. Scotland. Resident. 

 Breeds in small numbers on higher mountains in northern half 

 of mainland in any case as far south as Perth., and in Shetlands. 

 Also winter-visitor, often in large numbers, from Sept. to April, 

 and occasionally later. Often inland and on hills in winter, and not 

 much in " evidence " on north-east coast. 



* Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., v., 1882, p. 33, has clearly shown 

 that the name Plectrophanes is not tenable, and has proposed Plectrophenax. 

 The namePasserina, which has been used for some time, is not correct. E.H. 



