LAPLAND BUNTING. 4.67 
article, has not adopted the genus Plectrophanes of Meyer, 
but has made two sections of the Buntings, Himberiza, the 
second of which contains the species ranged by others in 
the new genus Plectrophanes. 
Pennant, in his Arctic Zoology, says the Lapland Bunt- 
ing is found in Siberia, and near the Uralian chain. To- 
wards winter a few migrate southward as far as Switzer- 
land. M. Necker in his paper in the Transactions of the 
Natural History Society of Geneva, mentions that this bird 
had been taken occasionally with Larks in that vicinity. 
M. Nilsson includes this bird in his Fauna of Scandina- 
via. It inhabits the Faroe Islands, Spitzbergen, Green- 
land, and Iceland in summer, and from thence westward to 
Hudson’s Bay. Some stragglers are occasionally seen in 
the northern parts of the United States. Dr. Richardson, 
in the second volume of the Fauna Boreali Americana, 
says, ‘‘ I never met this species in the interior of the fur 
countries during winter, and I suspect that its principal 
retreats in that season are on the borders of lakes Huron 
and Superior, and to the country extending to the westward 
on the same parallel. In the year 1827 it appeared on the 
plains at Carlton House, about the middle of May, in very 
large flocks, amongst which were many Shore Larks, 
Alauda alpestris, and a few individuals of Plectrophanes 
picta. During their stay of ten or twelve days they fre- 
quented open spots, where recent fires had destroyed the 
grass. They came to Cumberland House a few days later 
in the same season, and there kept constantly in the fur- 
rows of a newly-ploughed field. In the preceding year 
were seen, though in smaller flocks, in the vicinity of Fort 
Franklin, latitude 653°, in the beginning of May; and the 
crops of those that were then killed were filled with the 
seeds of Arbutus alpina. They breed in moist meadows 
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