FRINGILLIDyE — THE FIXCHES. 515 



The only antlienlieateil nost and egi,'9 (10,4o3) in tlio Sniithsonian collec- 

 tion WL'io received I'roni Mr. U. AlacFarhinc, with the parent, taken on tlie 

 Arctic coast cast oi' Fort Anderson, and luivinj,' on the lalud, " Nest situated 

 in a cave in a sand-luuik." The nest is deeply saucer-siiaped, and composed 

 of wiry grass-stems, witli ii lew featliors in the lining; external dianiet(>r 

 3.75 indies, internal almut :!.()() ; depth, 2.50 e.\ternally and 1.50 internally. 

 The eggs, five in number, are of a dull white, with perhaps a faint bluish 

 cast, sjirinkled and spatti-red with dilute yidlowish-rufous, tiie markings most 

 numerous towai'd the larger end ; tliey measure .\)'j of an inch in length by .64 

 in breadtli. 



Flectrophanes lapponicus, Si.i.by. 



LAPLAND LONQSFUB. 



"PringiUnlappomcK, Lisx. Fiuiiia Siurini, 17ii], .s)). '235." — In. Sy.st. Ifnt. I, 1766, 317. 

 FoKSTKK, Phil. Traii.s. LXII, 1772, lill. Kmhn-iyi (P/<r/ivi)liuiirs) lnjrimHicci, Sw. 

 F. a Am. II, 1831, 248, pi. xlviii. Eiiihvrha lai>pnnica, Ann. Oiii. Hiog. IV, 1838, 

 473, 1)1. 30'). Phclniphancsldji/iiminis, "Ski.iiy," Hon. List, lS:i8. — AlM). Syii. 1S39, 

 98. — lu. Birds Am. Ill, ISll, .")(l, (il. I'i2. - JUriii), liiriis N. Am. 1S.')8, 433.— 

 Dali, & Bann'i.si'eu, Tr. Cli. A. S. I, iMiH, •>:! (Ala.skiO. • ('ouiM'.i!, Orii. Cal. I, 178. 

 — Samtkls, 300. " Ceiilriiphuiu'^ lii/i/iiniii-iiN, K.Ml', Kntw. (!i'si-li. Kmopc Tliicrw. 

 1829." — Cahani.s, Mils. Hoin. ISni, 127. '• Fri,i,ii//,i r.,l,;irutii, Pali.. Itiii. 710, 

 sp. 20," Fmioli pj. Ill, 1793, 4i)4, pi. i. ''nilm/ihn, .nloird/un, GltAY, Li.st 

 Gen. 1841, App. 1842, 11. 



Sp. Chai!. ,!/((?<>. iroml all round, and nuuk blank, c.xtondinff on tlu^ jiisiilum in a 

 crcscentic patch; a broad lino iVom above and behind \\u) eve, sides of neck, a patch 

 in the black of hind head, and whole inider part.-*, white ; the .sides of body streaked 

 broadly with black. A liroad half-collar of chestnut on back of neck, s(>parated from 

 tli(! hood narrowly, and from the ivuricidars and throat broadly, by the white stripe from 

 the eye. Above l)rownish-l)lack, the feathers .sliarply edged with brownish-yellow. Outer 

 tail-feathers white, except the basal ])ortii)M of inner wel), and a .shaft streak at end; 

 next feather with a Avhite streak in end, rest black. Lejrs black : bill yellow, tipjied with 

 l)lack. In wint<'r phuna,!>-e the l)lack and other markings overlaid by rusty and fulvous; 

 beneath liy whitish. Female with the black feath- 

 cis of hea<l edp;ed with yellowish-rusl y ; the throat 

 white, l)ordcred on the sides and behind by blackish ; 

 feathers e(hj;c(l witii grayish-wbite, the rufous of nape 

 ob.scnre, and streak<'d with blackish. Length of male, 

 ().2"); winir, ;!.!)0 ; tail, 2.S(). 



TTaii. Xorthern portions of the Old and the New 

 Wiirld; lircedini; in arctic and subarctic rei^ion.s, and 

 in winter deseendiiif,' .southward, as far at least as New York, Southern Illinois, and Fort 

 Garland, New Mexico. 



Autumnal s])Ccimoiis, of both sexes, differ in having the piattern of colora- 

 tion obscured by och iceous borders to the feathers, and a general rusty cast 

 to the plumage. 



There appears to be no dilfeniuoe between North American and European 

 specimens of this bird. 



