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ANNALS OF BIRD LIFE. 



SPECIES. 



POINTS OF DISTINCTION. 



Mealy Redpole 



Greenland Redpole 



Lapland Bunting 



Little Bunting. 



Intermediate in size and colour- 

 ation between Lesser Redpole and 

 GreenlandRedpole; rump grayish 

 white streaked with brown ; wing 

 bar white. Length 5 inches. 



Breast pink; rump, under tail 

 coverts, and flanks nearly uniform 

 white ; much more white in 

 plumage than preceding. Length 

 51^ inches. 



Hind claw straight, and longer 

 than hind toe. Head, throat, 

 chest, and flanks black; white 

 streak from eye to breast ; chest- 

 nut collar ; rest of upper parts 

 black with pale buff margins to 

 feathers; wings and tail brown; 

 two outer feathers of latter smoke- 

 white at tip ; remaining under 

 parts white. In autumn black 

 and rufous portions of plumage 

 nearly concealed by pale margins. 

 Female has the throat dull white. 

 Length 6^ inches. 



Head and throat chestnut, with 

 black bands on each side of 

 crown, round ear coverts, and on. 

 side of throat ; above brown 

 streaked with black ; mantle and 

 wing coverts margined with 

 chestnut ; under parts white 

 streaked with black on breast 

 and flanks. Female similar in 

 colour, but throat paler. In- 

 autumn black stripes more in- 

 distinct. Length 4^ inches. 



