70 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 



59. SNOW BUNTING. Plectrophanes nivalis, Lin- 

 naeus. French, " Ortolan de neige," " Bruant de 

 neige." The Snow Bunting is probably a regular, 

 though never very numerous, autumnal visitant, 

 remaining on into the winter. It seems to be more 

 numerous in some years than others. Mr. Mac 

 Culloch tells me a good many Snow Buntings were 

 seen in November, 1850. 



Mr. Couch records one in the ' Zoologist ' for 

 1874 as having been killed at Cobo on the 28th of 

 September of that year. This seems rather an 

 early date. When I was in Guernsey iu November, 

 1875, I saw a few flocks of Snow Buntings, and 

 one a young bird of the year which had been 

 killed by a boy with a catapult, was brought into 

 Couch's shop about the same time, and I have one 

 killed at St. Martin's, Guernsey, in November, 1878 ; 

 and Captain Hubbach writes me word that he shot 

 three out of a flock of five in Alderney in January, 

 1863. 



Professor Ansted mentions the Snow Bunting in 

 his list as occurring in Guernsey and Sark, and 

 there is a specimen at present in the Museum. 



60. BUNTING. Ewiberiza miliaria, Linnaeus. 

 French, "Le proyer," ''Bruant proyer." The 

 Bunting is resident in Guernsey and breeds there, 

 but in very small numbers, and it is very local in 

 its distribution. I have seen a few in the Yale. I 



