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MR. J. H. GURNEY ON THE LAPLAND BUNTING. 
companies over the entire field of fifty acres. The Buntings were 
then so mixed up with the hundreds of Larks feeding upon the 
field, as well as a few Snow Buntings, and a few Linnets, &c., that 
it was most difficult to come on terms with them, and it was not 
until I had been in the field for four hours that I was able to 
obtain a single specimen. There were at that time certainly not 
less than fifty Lapland Buntings in the field, and possibly may 
have been twice as many. On the 5th of January, when I returned 
to the same place, there had been an additional fall of some two 
inches more snow, and there being then only one or two bare 
patches, where Kooks and other large birds had reached the heaps 
of ‘ rakings,’ &c., the small birds in the field were all congregated 
to these spots. There was also upon this occasion not a hundredth 
part of the number of Larks which were present on the 2nd, and 
it was therefore with ease that specimens of the Laplanders were 
obtained, and their habits and movements watched.” Examples 
procured by Mr. Bolam “ had been eating the barley from the 
stubble,” they “ also appeared to be pecking for seeds at bunches 
of knot grass.” 
I am much indebted to Mr. Bolam for the narrative from which 
he has permitted me to quote, and further for the information that 
a single Lapland Bunting was netted in South Northumberland ; 
another was “telegraphed” on Holy Island (T. Thompson, ‘Field,’ 
March 11, 1893). 
One might have expected the Lapland Buntings to have touched 
at many other places on the east coast, but none were seen at Spurn 
Point, nor any at Orfordness in Suffolk, or Thorpe Mere, where 
Mr. M. Ogilvie was looking out for them. Two were got at 
Flamborough (‘Naturalist,’ 1893, p. 57); and I heard from 
Mr. Harvie-Brown of one in Shetland. Mr. Macpherson reported 
two at Dover, and Mr. Pratt says a good many passed Brighton 
(‘Zoologist,’ 1893, p. 108), where they have been known to the 
bird-catchers for many years. I have to thank Mr. Pratt and 
Mr. Swaysland (who had twenty) for answering my queries, and 
also Mr. Cordeaux for informing me (just as this is going to the 
press) that on May 11th he saw an adult male at Bempton Cliffs, 
in Yorkshire. 
With the Laplanders there came to Norfolk a larger number of 
Snow Buntings than usual. Mr. Patterson called them “ wonder- 
