BUNTING. 291 



1.— SNOW BUNTING. 



Emberiza nivalis, hid. Om.\. 397. Lin.i. 308. Faun. Suec. No. 277. t. 1. Gm. 



Lin. i. S6G. Scop. i. No. 214. Brun. No. 245, 246. Muller, No. 250. Kramer, 



372. 2. Georgi, 174. Frisch, t. 6. Phipps's Voy. 188. Faww. Groen/. No. 81. 



Phil. Trans, lxii. p. 403. 11. Act.Stockh. 1740. 368. t.l. f.9. (Alauda.) Borowsk. 



iii. 147. 5. G. Gmel. It. i. 53. Id. li. 164. Tent. Man. 88. Id. Ed. ii. 328. 



Amer. Orn. iii. pi. 21. f. 2. SAawV Zoo/, ix. 341. pi. 54. 

 Hortulanus nivalis, Bris. iii. 285. Id. 8vo. i. 388. Gerin. t. 351. 

 Avis ignota, Gesn. Av. App. p. 724. 



Emberiza varia, Klein, p. 91. Lin. Trans. V. 12. 531. 

 Avis nivis, Marten's Spitzb. 53. t. K. f. B. 

 Die Sehnee-ammer, Naturf. xvii. 89. 

 Ortolan de Neige, Buf. iv. 329. PI. enl. 497. 1. 

 See Lerche, Wirs. Vog. t. 26. Gunth. Av. t. 26. 

 Pied Mountain-Finch, Albin, iii. pi. 71. 

 Snow Bunting, Gen. Syn.'m. 161. Id. Sup. 157. Br. Zool. i. No. 122. pi. 50. Id. 



1812. i. p. 142. pi. 55. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 222. Flor. Scot. i. p. 26, Edw. pi. 



126. Bewick, i. p. 148. Leivin, Birds, ii. pi. 71. Wale. Birds, ii. pi. 210. 



Orn. Diet. $ Supp. Bartr. Trav. 289. 



SIZE of a Chaffinch. Bill black ; forehead and crown white, 

 mixed with black on the hindhead ; back black ; rump white ; 

 bastard wing, and ends of the greater coverts white ; quills black, 

 base of them white ; secondaries white, with a black spot on the 

 inner webs ; middle feathers of the tail black ; the three outer white, 

 with a dusky spot near the ends; from chin to tail pure white ; legs 

 black, hind claw slightly bent. 



This species is found in the northern parts of Great Britain, and 

 is called in Scotland, the Snow Flake. Appears in great flocks in 

 the snowy season, and supposed to be a certain forerunner of hard 

 weather ; a few breed in the same places with the Ptarmigans, but 

 the greater part come from the still colder regions ; are found in all 

 the northern latitudes without exception, as far as our navigators 

 have been able to penetrate ; not only on the land of Spitsbergen,* 



* Dr. Hooker met with it in Iceland, and says it has rather a pleasant note, not unlike 

 the Linnet's, but more varied. — Tour in Iceland, p. 31. 



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