LAPLAND BUNTING. 



EMBERIZA LAPPONICA {Linn.). 



Fringilla lapponica, Linn. S. N. i. p. 317 (1766). 

 Emberiza lapponica, Nawm. iv. p. 319. 



Plectrophanes lapponica, Macg. i. p. 469 ; Hewitson, i. p. 182. 

 Plectrophanes lapponicus, Yarr. ed. 4, ii. p. 15 ; Dresser, iv. 

 p. 253. 



Lerchen-Ammer, German. 



An uncommon autumnal visitor to our Islands from 

 the far north ; Mr. H. Saunders tells us in his ' Manual ' 

 (a work to which I cannot sufficiently express my 

 indebtedness) that some forty specimens had been taken 

 in England, two in Scotland, and one found dead in 

 Ireland ; but it is probable that many females or young 

 birds may have escaped observation and record. This 

 is one of many British Birds with whose natural habits 

 in a wild state I have no acquaintance, and must refer 

 my readers to the standard authorities on ornithology. 



I have at this time of writing, January 1891, a male 

 Lapland Bunting alive which was taken by a bird- 

 catcher near Great Yarmouth and sent to me in October 

 1884; this bird has become quite reconciled to its 

 cage, is very tame and in perfect health, but has never 

 assumed the plumage of complete maturity. 



