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more plainly dressed, as will be seen on reference to my Plate, which represents an individual of the latter 
sex, said to have been killed on the Brighton race-course on the 3rd of November, 1868. 
Genus Schcenicola. 
The members of this marsh-loving section of the Buntings are about three in number, all inhabitants of 
Europe and the countries to the eastward of it. 
158. ScHffixrcoLA auundinacea . . . . . . . . . Vol. 111. PI. XXIX. 
Reed-Bunting. 
A resident and generally distributed species ; breeds in the Thames aits and in the osier-beds of other 
rivers. 
Genus Centrophanes. 
Comprises about five species of very interesting mountain-loving birds, mostly American, and always in 
high northern latitudes, the species inhabiting Lapland occasionally paying the British Islands a visit. 
159. Centrophanes lapponica .......... Vol. III. PI. XXX. 
Lapland Bunting. 
A rather frequent winter visitant, often caught in the clap-nets of the bird-catchers. 
Genus Plectrophanes. 
A genus composed of the single species known by the trivial names of Snow-Bunting and Snowflake. 
160. Plectrophanes nivalis . . . . \ . . . . . Vol. III. PI. XXXI, 
Snow-Bunting or Snowflake. 
This very interesting bird is an autumnal and winter visitant to the British Islands. Its summer quarters 
are the countries near to and, not unfrequently, within the arctic circle. It breeds in Lapland, and probably 
in suitable situations in all other countries of a similar latitude round the globe. 
Genus Zonotrichia. 
A purely American form, comprising about twelve known species, one of which has strayed across the 
Atlantic to the British Islands. 
161. Zonotrichia albicollis. 
White-throated Sparrow of American authors. 
“ A female specimen of this bird,” says Mr. R. Gray, in his ‘ Birds of Western Scotland,’ “ was shot near 
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