62 FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 



LAPLAND LONGSPUR 

 Calcarius lapponicus lapponicus 



A sparrow-like bird, with reddish brown wings, a black or 

 blackish breast, white, streaked underparts and„a brownish,back. 

 L. 61. 



Range. Nests in Arctic regions, wintering southward, rarely 

 and irregularly in the Atlantic States, to New York (casually 

 South Carolina) and more commonly in the Mississippi Valley 

 to Ohio and Texas. 



Washington, W V. one instance, Dec. Ossining, W. V., casual, 

 Cambridge, one record. N. Ohio, tolerably common W. V., Nov. 



Lapland Longspur. 



Adult male in summer. In winter the throat and breast are mixed black 

 and white. 



15-Apl. 25. Glen Ellyn, common W. V., Oct. 16-May 16. SE. 

 Minn., common W. V. 



A rare visitor from the far North who, if we see it at all, 

 will probably be found in the company of Horned Larks 

 or Snow Buntings. It is a browner bird than either of 

 them, sd while this is not a case of 'birds of a feather' 

 it is a case of birds of a long hind toe-nail, since all three 

 are distinguished by having a toe-nail actually longer than 

 its toe. All three are walkers, which means also that 

 they are ground-birds rather than tree-birds, and the 

 tracks they leave in the snow, or on the beach, distinguish 

 them from other birds if not from each other. 



