to THE NATURAL HISTORY 
Genus 7 s. E M B E R I Z A. 
The bill is drong, and conic, the (ides of each mandi¬ 
ble bending inwards; in the roof of the upper mandible is 
a hard knob, well formed for the purpofes of breaking, and 
bruiting hard feeds. 
The SNOW-BUNTING, 
Like fome other birds that inhabit cold cli¬ 
mates, has a fummer and a winter drefs; in the 
Cummer the plumage is tawney,but at the approach 
of winter, the head, the neck, the ftomach, 
and great part of the wings, become white. 
Linnaeus fays, they vary according to age and 
feafon. They inhabit Greenland, Hudfon’s Bay, 
Spitzbergen, and the mountains in Lapland. 
They feem to make the colder regions their fum¬ 
mer refidence, and it is wonderful when we con- 
fider that they are graminivorous, at leaf! when 
they are with us, how they can fubfift in Spitf- 
bergen, where there is fcarcely any vegetation, 
except of modes, and plants of that clafs. 
In the winter they leave thefe dreary regions, 
and come to warmer climates, in amazing num¬ 
bers j they fill the roads and fields in Sweden. 
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