LAPLAND LARK-BUNTING. 
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volume of the Transactions of the Linnsean 
Society. This bird is now in the collection of 
the Zoological Society ; the other specimens 
which have occurred have been met with acci- 
dentally, chiefly in the vicinity, or not far from 
London. The most northern was taken in Lan- 
cashire, and is now preserved in the Manchester 
museum. Its proper country seems to be Nor- 
thern Europe, the islands in the Northern Ocean, 
and arctic America, and in mam' of these coun- 
tries it is to a certain extent migratory. They 
are mentioned by most of our arctic voyagers, 
and were found breeding in “ moist meadows, 
on the shores of the Arctic Sea, the nest placed 
on a small hillock among moss and stones.” 
formed externally of dried grasses, and lined with 
deer’s hair. In the beginning of May, they were 
found to have fed on the berries of Arbutus 
alpina. 
Mr Selby’s bird, the original British specimen, 
had “ the head and upper parts of the body pale 
wood brown, tinged with yellowish gray, the 
shafts of the feathers being blackish brown. 
Greater wing coverts and secondary quills black- 
ish brown, deeply margined with chestnut brown, 
the tips being white, quills dusky, with paler 
edges. Above the eyes is a broad streak of pale 
wood brown, checks and ear coverts wood brown, 
the latter mixed with black. From the corners 
of the under mandible, on each side of the throat, 
is a streak of blackish brown. Throat yellowish 
white. Lower part of the neck and breast sullied 
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