(Ikxus CALCARIUS Brciisteix. 



CALCARIUS LAPPONICUS (Lixn.). 



223. Lapland Longspur. (536) 



Bill, modei'ate, unrufteii, but with a little tuft of feathers at the base of 

 xhe riotus ; hind claw, straightish, with its digit longer than the middle toe 

 and claw. Adult male : — Whole head and throat, jet black, bordered with 

 buffy or whitish, which forms a postocular line, separating the black of the 

 <;rown from that of the sides of the head ; a liroad chestnut cervical collar ; 

 upper parts in general, blackish, streaked with buffy or wliitish that edges all 

 the feathers ; below, wliitish, the Ijreast and sides black streaked ; wings, 

 dusky, the greater co\"ei'ts and inner secondaries edged with dull bay ; tail, 

 dusky, with an oblique wliite area on the outer feathers ; bill, yellowish, 

 tipped with black ; legs and feet, black. Wintei' males show less black on the 

 head, and the cervical chestnut duller; t\\e feinah and youn(j\\&\& no continuous 

 black on the head, and the crown is streaked like the back, and there are traces 

 of the cervical collar. Length, 6-fii ; wing, 3|-3{, ; tail, i^-i;!. 



Hae. — Northern portions of the northern hemisphere, breeding far north ; 

 in North America south, in winter, to the Northern United States, irregularly 

 to the Middle States, accidentally to South Carolina, and abundantly in the 

 interior to Kansas and Colorado. 



