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NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



Form typical. Tarsus longer than the middle toe and its claw. The toes are all free. 

 The hind claw is nearly straight, tapering, and acute, and is more thai} half the length of the 

 tarsus. 



Another male specimen, from Hudson's Bay, in Mr. Swainson's collection, differs in the 

 white marks about the head being replaced by primrose-yellow, and in that on the frontle 

 being much broader. This is, probably, the full autumnal plumage. 



A female, killed on Lake Superior, wants the black horned mark, and also the vinacious 

 tint of the head, neck, and shoulders of the male, these parts being coloured like the back. 

 The eye-stripe and under surface of the head are lemon-yellow ; and there is a narrow 

 black band, fringed with yellow, on the upper part of the breast. The rest of the plumage 

 nearly as in the male : her dimensions a little smaller. 



Length total 

 „ of tail 

 „ of folded wing 



Dimensions 

 Of the male. 

 Inch. Lin. 

 . 7 Length of bill above . 



2 10 ,, of bill from rictus 



.4 5 ,, of tarsus 



Inch. Lin. Inch. Lin. 



. C Length of middle toe . C 



8 „ of its nail ..04 



. 10§ „ of hind toe . .0 4 



,, of its r.ail . .00 



[65.] 1. Emberiza (Plectrophanes) nivalis. (Meyer.) The Snow- 



Bantling. 



Sub-family, Alaudinae, Swains.? Genus, Emberiza, Linn. Sub-genus, Plectrophanes, Meyeh. 



Emberiza nivalis. Linn. Forster, Phil. Trans., lxii., p. 403, No. 25. 



Mountain Bunting. Penn. Brit. Zool., i., p. 279, No. 123. Autumn plumage. 



Tawny Bunting. Idem, i., p. 278, No. 121. Autumn plumage. 



Snow Bunting. Idem, i., p. 279, No. 122. Winter plumage. Idem, Arct. Zool., ii., p. 355, No. 222. 



Snow Bunting {Emberiza nivalis). Wilson, iii., p 30, pi. 21, f. 2. Winter. 



Emberiza nivalis. Richards. App. Parry's Sec. Voy., p. 343, No. 5. Bonap. Syn., p. 103, No. 159. 



Sheegun-peetheesees. Cree Indians. Koppenno-acca-oo. Esquimaux. 



This neat and elegant native of the colder regions of both hemispheres breeds 

 in the northernmost of the American islands, and on all the shores of the conti- 

 nent, from Chesterfield Inlet to Behring's Straits. The most southerly of its 

 breeding stations in the New World that has been recorded, is Southampton 

 Island, in the sixty-second parallel, where Captain Lyons found a nest placed in 



