SNOW BIRD. 
legs. It's total length is seven inches ; the bill 
is seven lines ; the legs are nine lines and a 
half ; the alar extent is twelve inches ; the tail 
is two inches and seven lines, and stretches 
eight or nine lines beyond the wings." 
The judicious reader will have perceived^ 
that BafFon's description carefully avoids any- 
particular designation of country •, and thus 
escapes the to him unwelcome fa£t, that this 
bird is an inhabitant of Europe, as well as af 
America. 
The Snow Bird of Catesby is said to be 
the Emberiza Hyemalis, in the Linnsean sys- 
tem ; the Hortulanus Nivalis Niger, of Bris- 
son ; the Black Bunting, of Pennant and La-- 
tham , and the Jacobine Bunting, of Buf- 
fon. This last naturalist describes it as a va- 
riety of the i:olan de Neige, or Snow Bunt- 
ing ; Vv^hich some class v/ith the Larks, but 
Linnasus is thought to have referred it with 
greater propriety to the Buntings.. " These 
birds," says BufFon, speaking of the Snow 
Buntings, do not perch. They continue al- 
ways on the ground;, where they run, and trip 
about,, 
