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Lapland, and the middle part of Sidiria*, being often found near 
the Uralian chain. It -breeds in the northern parts, and unites 
into flocks: when it changes place, it runs like a Lark on the 
ground: fings like a Linnet, frequently while vibrating in the 
air, like the Lark. 
This fpecies inhabits, though lefs frequent, the fields of the 
inner bays of Groenland, and makes the neft in June, of mofs and 
.grafs, lined with feathers: lays five or fix eggs, of a brownith 
flate, mixed with a duller colour: is fuppofed to migrate into 
America in autumn. 
Fringilla.nivalis, Lia. Syf. i. p. 321. 21. 
Le Pingon de Neige, ou la Niverolle, Bri/. orn. iii. p. 162. pl. 15. f. 1.— 
Buf. cif. iv. p. 136. 
EN GT H feven inches. Bill black: head, and hind part 
of the neck, cinereous: back, fcapulars, and rump, grey 
.brown; the margins paleft: upper tail coverts black: the thighs 
pale afh-colour: all the under parts of the body as white as fnow, 
as are the wing -coverts and fecondary quills, except the two 
neareft the body, which are brown: the baftard wing and greater 
quills black: the two middle feathers of the tail are black; the 
others white, tipped with black. 
This fpecies inhabits various parts of the European continent, 
particularly near Daupbhiny, in France; alfo about the {nowy tops 
of the.Caucafian mountains, and thofe of Perfia, defcending from 
thence into the plains in winter +.- 
* The Rufiax bird likewife varies a little, having a cuneiform patch of white 
on the outer tail feather, and the fides of the belly ftreaked longitudinally with 
black. Pallas. 
+ Mr. Pennant. 
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