LAPLAND BUNTING. 
EMBERIZA LAPPONICA (Linn.). 
Fringilla lapponica, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 317 (1766). 
Emberiza lapponica, Nawm. iv. p. 319. 
Plectrophanes lapponica, Macg. i. p. 469; Hewitson, i. p. 182. 
Plectrophanes lapponicus, Yarr. ed. 4, ii. p. 15; Dresser, iv. 
p. 253. 
Lerchen- Ammer, German. 
An uncommon autumnal visitor to our Islands from 
the far north; Mr. H. Saunders tells us in his ‘ Manual.’ 
(a work to which I cannot sufficiently express my 
indebtedness) that some forty specimens had been taken 
in England, two in Scotland, and one found dead in 
Ireland ; but it is probable that many females or young 
birds may have escaped observation and record. This 
is one of many British Birds with whose natural habits 
in a wild state [ have no acquaintance, and must refer 
my readers to the standard authorities on ornithology. 
I have at this time of writing, January 1891, a male 
Lapland Bunting alive which was taken by a bird- 
catcher near Great Yarmouth and sent to me in October 
1884; this bird has become quite reconciled to its 
cage, is very tame and in perfect health, but has never 
assumed the plumage of complete maturity. 
