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fully examined them, and found they varied very much in their colours } 

 it is not indeed furprifing that the accurate Linnaeus fliould con-? 

 fiderthe Tawny and Mountain Buntings with their varieties, as the 

 Snow Bunting in its different approaches to its fummer appearance. 



Pennant is of a different opinion, and has defcribed it under the 

 Englifh name Tawny Bunting, as a diftincl: fpeeies, Latham has alfo 

 defcribed it as a different fpeeies in his general Synopfis ; and in the 

 lift of the Birds of Great Britain, in the fupplemental volume, he adds 

 €t Emberiza Frigida," and refers to the defcription of the Tawny- 

 Bunting in the Britilh Zoology, N 9 12 x. 



The name <c Emberiza glacialis" has been alfo given to the fame| 

 or a mere variety of this bircl. 



Our fpecimens are about fix inches and three quarters in lengthy 

 twelve inches and three quarters in breadth ; weight an ounce. 



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