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but also upon the ice adjacent to it, in large flocks ; what food they 

 can pick up there is difficult to determine, as they are granivorous 

 birds, and the only species of the Genus found in that climate; in 

 America they advance no farther to the south than Nova Scotia, 

 never being found at New York. It appears, that in proportion as 

 they are more northward, the whiter the plumage becomes, as in the 

 Ptarmigan, whose summer and winter dress differs considerably ; 

 and hence we may suppose, that the Snow Bunting or, Snow Flake, 

 as by some called, is also influenced in colour by means of the cli- 

 mate. I have one from Hudson's Bay, and have seen others, in 

 which the whole head and neck, rump, and under parts, were white; 

 back black, fringed with white ; wings and tail black and white 

 mixed, like that figured in the PI. enlum. while those found in 

 Scotland, have some blackish markings about the head, as in the 

 Br. Zoology. In Greenland it is said, that the female is dusky 

 white, where the male is black, except the breast and belly, which 

 are pure white ; temples testaceous. It is called at Hudson's Bay, 

 Wapathecu-sish : found in abundance in Hare Island, on the west 

 Coast of Greenland. 



A. — Hortulanus nivalis pectore nigro, Bris. iii. 289. B. Id. 8vo. i. 389. 

 Black-breasted Bunting, Gen. Syn,\\\. 163. B. 



In this bird almost the whole of the head, the upper part of the 

 neck, back, rump, upper tail coverts, scapulars, and wing coverts, 

 are yellowish white ; round the bill and all the under parts blackish ; 

 wings and tail black and white mixed. 



B. — Fringilla capite albo, Klein, An. p. 98. 10. 



Hortulanus nivalis torquatus, Bris. iii. 290. D. Id. 8vo. i. 390. Buf. iv. 335. 



Pied Chaffinch, Alb. ii. 54. Gen. Syn. iii. 163. 



The bill is reddish, with a bluish, longitudinal streak ; eyelids 

 black ; head, throat, and neck, white ; at the lower part are three 



