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and nearly strait. Partaking in this manner of the characters 

 both of the Larks and Buntings, they hold an intermediate 

 station, and form the bond of connection or passage from 

 one genus to the other. They are natives of the Arctic 

 Regions, and during the breeding season retire to very high 

 latitudes ; the Snow-Flake (Fleet, nivalis) having been met 

 with upon Melville Island, and other regions around the 

 Pole, The second section of TEMMINCK'S genus Emberiza, 

 ( fc< Bruants Eperonniers'' 1 ) answers to that now before us. 



SNOW-BUNTING. 



PLECTROHANES XIVALIS, Meyer. 

 PLATE LII. FIG. 7. 



Plectrophanes nivalis, Faun. Amer. Boreal. 2. 246. No. 65. 



Emberiza nivalis, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 308. 1 Fau. Suec. No. 22?. t. 1. 



Bruantde neige, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 319. 



Emberiza nivalis, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 866. sp. \.Lath> Ind. Ornith. 1. 



p. 397- sp. 1. 



L'Ortolan de neige, Buff. Ois. v. 4. p. 329 Id. PL Enl. 497- f. 1. 



Schneeammer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 305 Meyer, Tasschenb. 



Deut. v. 1. p. 186 Id. Vog. Deut. v. 1. t. Heft. 12. f. 1. old male. 



Snow-Bunting, Br. Zool. 1. No. 122. t. 50 Arct. Zool. 2. No. 222 



Edw. 1. 126. old male Lath. Syn. 3. p. 161. Id. Sup. p. 157 Levin's 



Br. Birds, 2. t.^l.Mont. Ornith. Diet. v. 1. Id. Sup Bewick's Br. 



Birds, v. 1. p. US. Shaw's Zool. v. 9. 341. t. 54. 



Emberiza glacialis, Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 398. sp. 2. 



Emberiza mustelina, Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 867. sp. 7- 



Montifringilla calcaribus alaudae, major, Raii Syn. p. 88. A. Will. 



p. 187. t. 77. 



Great pied Mountain Finch, Will. (Ang.) p. 255. 

 Tawny Bunting, Br ZooL 1. No. 121 Lewin's Br. Birds, 2. t. 72 



La t'li. Syn. 3. p. 164. 2 M&nt. Ornith. Diet. v. 1 Id. App. Shaw's 



Zool. v. 9. p. 344. 

 Ortolan de passage, Buffi Ois. v. 4. p. 323. 



Emberiza montana, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 867. sp 25 Lath. Ind. Ornith. 



v. 1. p. 398. sp. 3. 



Lesser Mountain Finch, and Bramlin, Will. (Ang.) p. 255. 

 Der Bergammer, Bechst. Tasschenb. Deut v. 3. p. 314. t 10. Meyer ^ 



V6g. Deut. v. 1. t. f. 2, and 3. 

 Mountain Bunting, Lath. Syn. v. 3. p. 165. sp. 3. Mont. Diet. Ornith. 



Id. Supp Shaw's Zool v. 9. p. 346. 

 Tawny Bunting, Bewick's Br. Birds, v. 1. p. t. 150. 



Syn. of Adult 

 Male in sum- 

 mer's plu- 

 mage. 



Syn. of young 

 Males and old 

 Females in 

 winter plu- 

 mage. 



Svn.of 

 Young of the 

 year. 



