GENUS CALCARIUS BECHSTEIN. 



CALCARIUS LAPPONICUS (LINN.). 



223. Lapland Longspun (536) 



Bill, moderate, unruffed, but with a little tuft of feathers at the base of 

 the rictus ; hind claw, straightish, with its digit longer than the middle toe 

 and claw. Adult male : Whole head and throat, jet black, bordered with 

 buffy or whitish, which forms a postocular line, separating the black of the 

 <3rown from that of the sides of the head ; a broad chestnut cervical collar ; 

 upper parts in general, blackish, streaked with buffy or whitish that edges all 

 the feathers ; below, whitish, the breast and sides black streaked ; wings, 

 dusky, the greater coverts and inner secondaries edged with dull bay ; tail, 

 dusky, with an oblique white area on the outer feathers ; bill, yellowish, 

 tipped with black ; legs and feet, black. Winter males show less black on the 

 head, and the cervical chestnut duller; the female and young have no continuous 

 black on the head, and the crown is streaked like the back, and there are traces 

 of the cervical collar. Length, 6-6J ; wing, 3-3 ; tail, 2-2$. 



HAB. Northern portions of the northern hemisphere, breeding far north ; 

 in North America south, in winter, to the Northern United States, irregularly 

 to the Middle States, accidentally to South Carolina, and abundantly in the 

 interior to Kansas and Colorado. 



