Snow-Bunting. INSESS. PLECTROPHANES. 279 



and nearly strait. Partaking in this manner of the characters 

 both of the Larks and Buntings, they hold an intermediate 

 station, and form the bond of connection or passage from 

 one genus to the other. They are natives of the Arctic 

 Regions, and during the breeding season retire to very high 

 latitudes ; the Snow-Flake {Pled, nivalis) having been met 

 with upon Melville Island, and other regions around the 

 Pole. The second section of Temminck''s genus Emberiza, 

 (" Bruants Eperormiers''') answers to that now before us. 



SNOW-BUNTING. 



Plectrohanes nivalis, Meyer. 

 PLATE LII. Fig. 7- 



Plectrophanes nivalis, Faun. Amer. Boreal. 2. 246. No. 65. 



Emberiza nivalis, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 308. 1 Fau. Suec. No. 227. t. 1. 



Bruant de neige, Temni. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 319. 



Emberiza nivalis, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 866. sp. 1. — Lath, Ind, Ornith. 1. 



p. 397. sp. 1. 



L'Ortolan de neige, Buff. Ois. v. 4. p. 329 Id. PI. Enl. 497- f. 1- 



Schneeammer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 305 — Meyer, Tasschenb. 



Deut. V. 1. p. 186 Id. Vog. Deut. v. 1. t. Heft. 12. f. 1. old male. 



Snow-Bunting, Br. Zool. 1. No. 122. t. 50 Arct Zool. 2. No. 222 — 



Edw. 1. 126. old male Lath. Syn. 3. p. 161.— M Sup. p. 157 — Lewin's 



Br. Birds, 2. t.\7\.—Mont. Ornith. Diet. v. \.—Id. Sup Bewiclc's Br. 



Birds, v. 1. p. 148 Shaw's Zool. v. 9. 341. t. 54. > 



Emberiza glacialis. Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 398. sp. 2. n 



Emberiza mustelina, Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 867. sp. 7. 



Montifringilla calcaribus alaudse, major. Rail Syn. p. 88. A. — Will. 



p. 187. t. 77. 

 Great pied Mountain Finch, Will. (Ang.) p. 255. 

 Tawny Bunting, Br ZooL 1. No. 121 Leivin's Br. Birds, 2. t. 72 i 



Lath. Syn. 3. p. 164. 2 Mont. Ornith. Diet. v. 1 — Id. App. Shaw's 



Zool. V. 9. p. 344. 

 Ortolan de passage, Buff. Ois. v. 4. p. 323. j 



Emberiza montana, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 867. sp. 25. — Lath. Ind. Ornith. ' 



V. 1. p. 398. sp. 3. 

 Lesser Mountain Finch, and Bramlin, Will. (Ang.) p. 255. 

 Der Bergammer, Bechst. Tassehenb. Deut v. 3. p. 314. t. 10. — Meyer, 



Vog. Deut. V. 1. t. f. 2, and 3. 

 Mountain Bunting, Lath. Syn. v. 3. p. 1 65. sp. 3. — Mont. Diet. Ornith. — 



Id. Supp Shaw's Zool. v. 9. p. 346. 



Tawny Bunting, Bewiclc's Br. Birds, v. 1. p. t. 150. 



Syn. of Aduft 

 ftlale in sum- 



^ mer's plu- 



' mage. 



Syn. of young 

 Males and old 

 ^Females in 

 winter plu- 

 mage. 



Syn. of 

 Young of the. 

 year. 



