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LAPLAND BUNTING. 



LAPLAND LARK BUNTING. 

 LAPLAND FINCH. LAPLAND LONG-SPUE. 



Plectrophanes lapponica, SELBY. 



Ember iza lapponica, JENYXS. 



" cafcarata, TEMMINCK. 



Fringitta lapponica, LINNAEUS. LATHAM. 



" calcarata, PALLAS. 



" montana, BRISSON. 



Plectrophanes. Plectron A spur. Phaino To shew. 



Lapponica ? 



THIS bird is a native both of Europe and Asia, being found 

 along the Uralian chain of mountains which separate the two 

 continents; and, in the former, in Siberia, Sweden, Lapland, 

 Spitzbergen, the Ferroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, and a few 

 so far south as Germany, France, Prussia, Poland, Silesia, 

 and Switzerland. It occurs also in the Arctic portions of 

 North America, and some stragglers are occasionally seen in 

 the more southern parts of that portion of the continent. 



In this country one was purchased some years ago in the 

 London market; a second was taken on the Downs, near 

 Brighton, in the county of Sussex; and a third in the same 

 neighbourhood on the 30th. of September, 1844. A fourth 

 was captured in September, 1828, a few miles north of London; 

 a fifth was caught near Preston, in Lancashire, in the month 

 of October, in the year 1833, and a sixth was taken in a 

 trap by a bird-catcher, near Kendal, in Westmoreland, at the 

 end of June or beginning of July. It was either a female 

 or a young male, as were all the other recorded specimens, 

 excepting the second of those taken near Brighton. 



The Lapland Bunting gives a natural preference to the 

 sterile tracts of the north, where the whole scene is wild and 



