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SNOW BUNTING. CrassIl. 
fnows. They arrive in that feafon among the 
Cheviot hills, and in the Highlands in amazing 
flocks. A few breed in the laft on the fummit of 
the higheft hills in the fame places with the Ptar- 
migans ; but the greateft numbers migrate from the 
extreme north. They appear in the Shetland iflands, 
then in the Orkuies, and multitudes of them often 
fall, wearied with their flight, on vefiels in the 
Pentland Firth. Their appearance is a certain 
fore-runner of hard weather, and ftorms of fnow, 
being driven by the cold from their common re- 
treats. Their progrefs fouthward is probably thus ; 
Spitzbergen and Greenland, Hudfon’s Bay, the Lap- 
land Alps, Scandinavia, Iceland, the Ferroe ifles, 
Shetland, Orknies, Scotland, and the Cheviot hills. 
They vifit at that feafon all parts of the northern 
hemilphere, Prufia, Auftria, and Siberia* They 
arrive lean and return fat. In Aufiria they are 
caught and fed with millet, and like the Oriolan, 
crow exceffively fat. In their flights, they keep 
very clofe to each other, mingle moft confufedly 
together; and fling themielves collectively into the 
form of a ball, at which inftant the fowler makes 
great havoke amiong them. 
* Kraw. Auftria, 372. Bell’s Travels, I. 198. 
Leffler 
