LAPLAND BUNTING—SNOW-BUNTING. 17 
Genu S — Calcar iu s. 
87. Calcar ius lapponicus. Lapland Bunting. 
A rare occasional visitor. 
There are two in the collection of Hart at Christchurch, 
from that neighbourhood, one procured after a great snow- 
storm on March 13th, 1891, and the other on October 2nd, 
1893. 
It inhabits the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and 
America. 
Not included in Kelsall's original list. 
Genus — Plectrophanes. 
88. Plectrophanes nivalis. Snow-Bunting. 
A winter visitor, usually to the coast of the mainland, 
less frequently to the Isle of Wight, and still more rarely 
to our inland districts. 
Arriving in October and departing in March or April. 
Gilbert White remarks ^ that " a shepherd saw, as he 
thought, some white larks on a down above my house 
this winter ; were not these the snow-flake, the Emberiza 
nivalis of the British Zoology ? No doubt they were." 
Later 2 he calls it the " greater brambling or snow-fleck," 
and places it in his Calendar under the date January 9th. 
Bell entered it in his list, on the authority of J. Curtis, 
as having occurred at Farringdon. 
' Letter xv. to Pennant. Selbome. March 30th, 1768. 
^ Letter xxvi. to Pennant. Selbome. December 8th, 1 769. 
