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SNOW BUNTING. 



SNOW FLAKE. SNOW FLECK. SNOW FOWL. TAWNY BUNTING. 



GREAT PIED MOUNTAIN FINCH. MOUNTAIN BUNTING. 

 LESSEE MOUNTAIN FINCH. BRAMBLING. GREATER BRAMBLTNG. 



Plectrophanes nivalis, MEYEU. SELBY. 



Emberiza nivalis, LINNAEUS. GMELIN. LATHAM. 



" glacialis, LATHAM. PENDANT. 



" mustelina, GMELIN. 



" montana, GMELIN. LATHAM. PENNANT. 



Plectrophanes. Plectron A spur. Phaino To shew. Nivalis Snowy. 



THE plate is taken from a drawing by my friend, the Rev. 

 R. P. Alington, M.A., Rector of Swinhope, Lincolnshire. 



This pretty-looking species is a native of the icy countries 

 of the Arctic regions, and the islands of the Polar seas. The 

 Rev. Dr. Scoresby, whose name is so well known as Captain 

 Scoresby, the hardy 'voyageur' to far severer climes than even 

 those where the 'Canadian Boat Song' is heard, met with 

 great numbers on the frozen lands of Spitzbergen. 



It is found in all the northern parts of Europe and America, 

 and builds in the North Georgian Islands, Melville Island, 

 Southampton Island, Lapland, Iceland, Nova Zembla, Green- 

 land, Siberia, Norway, Sweden, the Ferroe Isles, and no doubt 

 in various other northern countries; it occurs also in Germany, 

 France, Austria, and Holland, and even in some instances in 

 Italy. 



It is a winter visitant to Shetland and the Orkney Islands, 

 where as many as fifty-seven have been killed at one shot; 

 Scotland, and the north of England and Ireland, advancing 

 in some few instances to the extreme south of our island; but 

 it must be there sadly out of its element, like some Scotch 



