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slightly washed with fulvous ; wing-coverts blackish-brown, 
tipped with white ; bastard-wing, primary- coverts, and quills 
blackish-brown, edged with whitish ; eyebrow and under surface 
of body dull white; the ear-coverts dull ashy ; sides of upper 
breast ashy-brown. Total length, 6 inches ; wing, 3'8. 
In winter, when the Snow-Bunting is chiefly captured in 
England, the plumage is altogether more rufous or even chest- 
nut, the paler edges to the feathers concealing the full plumage 
underneath. The summer dress is gained by the wearing off 
of the light margins to the feathers. 
Eange in Great Britain — Chiefly known as a winter visitant, 
large flocks occurring on the eastern coast, especially in severe 
weather, when the Snow-Buntings are found some distance 
inland. Within the last ten years the species has been dis- 
covered to breed in Scotland, a nest having been taken in 
Sutherlandshire in 1888 by Messrs. Peach and Hinxman, and 
again by Mr. John Young in 1888, while in 1893 a nest was 
found in Banffshire by a party of naturalists. It had already 
been said to nest in Unst, the most northern of the Shetland 
Isles. 
Eange outside the British Islands. — The Snow-Bunting is an 
arctic bird, and has been found nesting in Grinnell Land by 
Colonel Feilden during the voyage of the “Alert” in lat. S2 0 
33' N. It is a circumpolar species, being found in the 
Faeroes, Iceland, Novaya Zernlia, Spitzbergen, and also, as 
Mr. Seebohm says, “ breeding on the tundras of the Arctic 
Regions, beyond the limit of forest growth.” It also inhabits 
the arctic portions of North America, and migrates south in 
winter, reaching the Mediterranean countries in Europe, and 
Georgia, in the United States. 
Hahits. — Usually found frequenting the sea-shore or the 
adjacent lands. Here the birds keep in flocks, feeding on seeds, 
and are not very shy, their black and white plumage, however, 
rendering them always conspicuous. For the nesting season 
the flocks disperse, and the birds are only found in their breed- 
ing haunts in pairs, and an interesting account of the nesting 
of the species in different parts of Northern Europe and 
Siberia is given by Mr. Seebohm. On the Ycncsei, “where 
