468 EMBERIZIDA. 
on the shores of the Arctic Sea. The nest, placed on a 
small hillock, among moss and stones, is composed exter- 
nally of the dry stems of grass, interwoven to a conside- 
rable thickness, and lined very neatly and compactly with 
deer’s hair. The eggs, usually seven, are pale ochre-yel- 
low, spotted with brown.” Captain James Ross, in the 
Appendix quoted in the history of the Shore Lark, says, 
the Lapland Bunting was “ by no means numerous in the 
higher northern latitudes. A nest with five eggs was 
brought on board early in July 1830.” 
The adult male in spring and summer has the beak 
yellow, with the pomt black; irides hazel; the lore, or 
space between the base of the beak and the eye, the fore- 
head, crown of the head, and occiput, velvet black, with a 
collar of bright chestnut on the nape of the neck and 
upper part of the back; the feathers of the .back, wings, 
and upper tail-coverts, reddish brown at the edge, dark 
brown at the centre; the small wing-coverts edged with 
white ; the greater coverts and tertials with a broad mar- 
gin of red; quill-feathers blackish brown, with narrow 
light-coloured exterior margins; the tail-feathers also 
blackish brown, with reddish edges; the two outer fea- 
thers with a conical white spot at the end; the tail forked; 
the chin, cheeks, ear-coverts, throat, and breast, velvet 
black ; behind the eye, and surrounding the ear-coverts, a 
streak of white which descends to the breast, bounding the 
black on the throat and breast ; lower part of the breast, 
the belly, and under tail-coverts, dull white; sides of the 
breast and flanks spotted with black ; legs, toes, and claws, 
pitch black ; the hind claw almost straight. 
The whole length about six inches and a quarter. From 
the carpal joint to the end of the wing, three inches and a 
half: the first quill-feather the longest in the wing. 
