78 SNOW BUNTING 
PLECTROPHANES NIVALIS (ULinn.). 
SNOW BUNTING, 
Mr. Kermode considers this a ‘ regular winter visitor in 
small numbers,’ and likely this pretty accurately describes 
its position in Man. During the later years of my stay 
in the Douglas neighbourhood (1893-97) Mr. Adams, the 
Douglas bird-stuffer, had always a specimen or two in his 
hands each winter; one of these taken in March 1894 was | 
in nearly complete black and white breeding dress. On 
the Ist March 1897 Mr. Leach saw one or two among 
Bramblings near Douglas, and in Mr. Kermode’s collection 
is a specimen taken at Claughbane, Ramsey, 26th March 
1901, the latest date, Mr. Kermode states, known to him. 
There are several others in the Ramsey Museum. On 
Ist April 1904, however, Mr. Graves saw one near Peel 
feeding with Yellow Hammers on a road, and in February 
1902 one had been obtained in the same neighbourhood, 
where, in the seventies, Mr. Graves remembers seeing it 
in considerable numbers. On 2nd December 1903 Mr, 
Crellin saw a solitary bird near Orrisdale, and on 18th 
November 1904 Mr. W. J. C. Joughin observed three on 
the slope of Snaefell near the Bungalow Hotel. 
On 1st October 1880 fifty to sixty are reported from the 
Point of Ayre lighthouse, with Thrushes and Blackbirds. 
The species is mentioned at the same place in the autumn 
of 1881. There was at the former-mentioned time a large 
and sudden immigration into Great Britain. On 22nd 
December 1887 Langness records three. 
In Ireland the Snow Bunting is most frequent as a 
winter visitor to the coasts and islands of Ulster. In north- 
western England it is usually not numerous, but some- 
times occurs in great flocks, and its general distribution in 
