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the head and fore part of the back broadly margined with pale rufous, and those on the chest and lower 

 part of the throat washed with buff and marked here and there with pale rufous. 



The Lapland Bunting is a circumpolar bird, inhabiting, during the summer, only the high 

 northern regions ; but on the approach of winter it migrates southward, and is often met with in 

 very low latitudes. In Great Britain it is occasionally found as a straggler, though it has perhaps 

 occurred more often than is generally supposed, having been doubtless overlooked or confounded 

 in many instances with the immature Beed-Bunting. Mr. Rowe does not name it in his list of 

 the birds of Devon ; and it appears rarely to have been met with in the south of England. We 

 possess one specimen procured near London ; and Yarrell records the capture of two near London 

 and three near Brighton. Mr. Stevenson refers to two occurrences only in Norfolk — one at 

 Postwick, near Norwich, the other at Crostwick, also near Norwich ; and Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., 

 writes to us as follows : — " A male Lapland Bunting in my collection, at present unrecorded, 

 was netted in the Californian Gardens, at Yarmouth, in the winter of 1.868. It was observed in 

 the market, along with some live Skylarks, by the person of whom I obtained it (and who gave 

 me the account), the day before Christmas. It was a beautiful song-bird, and he kept it alive 

 three years. In summer its beak turned yellow. This makes the second specimen which has 

 occurred since the publication of the ' Birds of Norfolk ' (cf. Trans. Norwich Nat. Soc. 1871-1872, 

 p. 65)." Yarrell refers to one as having been procured near Preston, in Lancashire, and states 

 that it is now preserved in the Manchester Museum. In Scotland it has, according to Mr. Pi. 

 Gray, only been procured once, near Caithness, many years ago. 



It is tolerably numerous in Greenland, and we have received many specimens from there. 

 Professor Newton says that it is " very seldom observed in Iceland. Faber saw a single example 

 in the south in the spring of 1821. I do not know of any other unquestionable instance of its 

 occurrence." In the Faeroes it has not hitherto been met with, but occurs throughout Scandi- 

 navia as far as the North Cape, though not straggling as far north as Spitzbergen. 



According to Collett it breeds in the interior of Finmark, especially near the Varangerfiord, 

 more rarely on the islands, as on Vesteraalen. Mr. Godman found it breeding at Bodo in 1857. 

 In the summer of 1861 Mr. Siebke shot this bird in the willow-region on the Dovre, in 62° N. 

 lat. ; and Mr. Barth found it breeding there in July 1864. On the lowlands only stragglers are 

 found in the spring — as at Christiania in 1834 and 1839, in Nedernses in 1846, on Hedemarken 

 in 1861, in Aaseral (Christiansand) in 1865, and in GZsterdalen in 1856 and 1857. 



In Sweden, Dr. C. R. Sundstrom writes us, " it is found during the summer season in the 

 fell-mosses covered with grass and willow scrub, situated just below the snow-region, and it 

 breeds there. It does not occur on the high snow-fells, where the Snow-Bunting has its home ; 

 nor is it found in the upper birch-region. In its habits it reminds one much of the Larks, and 

 like those runs and does not hop along the ground. The song resembles that of the Linnet. It 

 arrives at its summer quarters in May and leaves again in September and October. During 

 migration it occurs in Southern Lapland and Norrland, but very seldom in Central or Southern 

 Sweden. It has only once been found with certainty to occur in Central Sweden* at Nerike, on 

 the 9th of May, 1857. The specimen in question was winged, and kept for some time alive in a 

 cage, and sang in confinement. Both when migrating and also in the summer season the Lapland 

 Bunting frequents open places ; the bird procured in Nerike was shot when running in a field, and 



