Snow-Buntinc. PASSERES. EMBERIZA. Q4'7 
SECTION II. 
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERS. 
With the hind claw produced, and nearly straight. 
The two species belonging to this section breed, and pass 
In their habits they vary 
from the other Buntings, in never perching, but living en- 
tirely upon the ground ; frequenting also open and mountain- 
ous districts. On the ground, they run like the Larks. 
the summer in the Polar Regions. 
Snow-Bunting.—Emberiza nivalis, Lan. 
PLATE 82. Fig. 7. 
Emberiza nivalis, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 308. 1.—Fau. Suec. No. 227. t. 1. 
Bruant de neige, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 319. 
Emberiza nivalis, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 866. sp. 1.—Zath. Ind. Ornith. 1 
p: 397. sp. 1 
L’Ortolan de neige, Buff: Ois. v. 4. p. 329.—Id. Pl. Enl. 497. f. 1. 
Schneeammer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 305.—Meyer, Tasschenb. 
Deut. v. 1. p. 187.—Id. Vig. Deut. v. 1. t. Heft. 12. f: 1. old male. 
Snow-Bunting, Br. Zool. 1. No. 122. t. 50.—Arct. Zool. 2. No. 222.— 
Edw. t. 126. old male.—Lath. Syn.'3. p.161.—I/d. Sud. p, 157.—Lewin’s 
Br. Birds. 2. t. 71.—Mont. Ornith. Dict. v. 1.—Jd. Sup.—Bewick’s Br. 
Birds, v. 1. p. 148.—Shaw’s Zool. v. 9. 341. t. 54. J 
Emberiza glacialis, Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 398. sp. 2. 7 
Emberiza mustelina, Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 867. sp. 7. 
Montifringilla calcaribus alaudze, major, Raii, Syn. p, 88. A.— Will. | 
187. t. 77. 
gest pied Mountain Finch, Wii. (Ang.) p. t 
Tawny Bunting, Br. Zool. 1. No. 121. La Br. Birds, 2. t. 72.— 
Lath. Syn. 3. p. 164. 2.—Mont. Ornith. Dict. v. 1.—Jd. App.—Shaw’s 
Zool. v. 9. p. 344. 
Ortolan de passage, Buff: Ois. v. 4. p. 323. J 
Emberiza montana, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 867. sp. 25.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. } 
v. 1. p. 398. sp. 3. 
Lesser Mountain Finch, and Bramlin, Wii/. (Ang.) p. 255. 
Der Bergammer, Bechst. 'Tasschenb. Deut. v. 3. p. 314. t. 10.—Meyer, 
Vég. Deut. v. 1. t. f. 2, & 3. 
Id. Sup.—Shaw’s Zool. v. 9. p. 346. 
Mountain Bunting, Lath. Syn. v.3. p. 165. sp. 3.—Mont. Dict.,Ornith.— 
Tawny Bunting, Bewick’s Br. Birds, v. 1. p. t. 150. 
It is only after patient scrutiny, and a long course of ob- 
servation, that I have ventured to bring the synonymes of 
Syn. of 
adult 
Male, and 
summer’s 
plumage. 
Syn. of 
young 
Males and 
old Fe- 
males in 
winter 
plumage. 
Syn. of 
Young of 
the year 
