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wanting, the nest of this bird may always be readily distinguished from those of other birds 

 which breed in the same locality, such as Anthus pratensis, A. cervinus, and Emberiza schceniclus. 

 The eggs measured from 21 to 23 millimetres in length, by 15^- millimetres in breadth. One of 

 the eggs wanted the black spiral lines that were found on all the others. 



"In June and July of 1872 I had good opportunities of observing these birds in West 

 Finmark, where I found them abundant on the shores of the Porsangerfiord and on the island 

 of Store Tamso, which, ornithologically, is one of the most interesting places in the country. 

 Here the Lapland Bunting was by far the commonest of all the small birds, and inhabited every 

 part of the island that was overgrown with heather or covered with turf. It had a peculiar 

 habit of making itself observed, settling without any appearance of shyness within a few steps of 

 me, on all the small knolls overgrown with Eubus chamcemorus and Empetrium, where its bright 

 colours made it all the more conspicuous. The eggs were just hatched, and the young feeding. 

 In all my excursions I was incessantly accompanied by one pair after another, each pair following 

 me a hundred yards or so ; thus I had their society all the day over the whole island. 



" Its very melodious song is uttered by the male while ascending from the top of some 

 dwarf birch or willow, and descending again with trembling wings to its former perch, after the 

 manner of Anthus arboreus. All song, however, ceases as soon as the young are hatched. In 

 their stomachs I only found small insects and gravel. 



" As is doubtless the case with most of the smaller birds inhabiting Finmark, the Lapland 

 Bunting migrates to and from this province through Russian Lapland and Sweden, and never 

 passes the western parts of Scandinavia. Therefore in the southern parts of the country very 

 few individuals are observed, and, moreover, most, if not all, of these probably belong to the 

 above-mentioned colony on the Dovre-fjeld." 



The late Mr. Wheelwright found numbers breeding in Quickjock, Lapland, on a low flat, 

 about 2000 feet above Quickjock, at the foot of one of the highest snow fells, and gives in his 

 ' Spring and Summer in Lapland ' full particulars as to its breeding-habits, which agree with 

 what we state above. Mr. Benzon writes to us that " its nest appears, like that of the Yellow 

 Ammer, to be placed sometimes on the ground, sometimes on low bushes ; and in Greenland it 

 generally appears to choose the latter position. The nest is constructed of dried grass mixed with 

 moss, and is lined with grass, straws, and feathers ; and it is generally less in size than that of the 

 Snow-Bunting, measuring outside 100 and 40 and inside 50 and 20 to outside 120 and 60 and 

 inside 50 and 25 millimetres respectively." The eggs, from four to six in number, have a more 

 or less dark olive-brown ground-colour, in some light varieties, however, greyish green, and are 

 covered with large brown shell-spots and dark brown surface-markings. Some varieties are 

 without scratches, but are covered with dark reddish brown blotches, which give the egg a 

 uniform appearance. The light- coloured eggs closely resemble those of Emberiza aureola; 

 and others are much like eggs of Emb. schceniclus. One variety in Mr. Benzon's collection is 

 uniform olive-brown with a few scratches, and another, a dwarf egg from Greenland, measuring 

 16 by 11^ millimetres, is dark brown. In size they vary from 19 by 14 to 21^- by 16 millimetres. 

 Pastor Sommerfeldt writes that " its eggs vary greatly, but when new laid have usually a greenish 

 tinge, and some are light green with dark brown spots, chiefly at the larger end. These eggs, 

 like those of Anthus pratensis and A. cervinus, get darker as they become incubated, or, in other 



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