SNOW BUNTING. 
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ladies whom I heard the other day lamenting that they never 
found it cold enough in England. 
Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart., relates in the ‘Zoologist,’ page 
1209, that one was met with near Bolleston Hall, his seat, 
near Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, in the month of Oc¬ 
tober, 1845. It was knocked down by a labourer with a 
stone. 
The numbers of these birds diminish from Yorkshire south¬ 
wards, in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire, and a few 
have been met with occasionally even in Surrey, Sussex, and 
Devonshire, and other southern counties. One was shot near 
Liskeard, in Cornwall, as N. Hare, Esq. informs me, in March, 
1851; one near Falmouth, by T. Harvey, Esq.; one by Mr. 
Copeland, at Pendennis Castle, in October, 1843; three by 
Mr. May, in subsequent years, between the Castle and Pen- 
nance Point; and one by Mr. Bow, of Devonport, on Boborough 
Down, October 11th., 1851; and I have one, presented to me 
by Mr. John Dickson, of Nafferton, which was shot near 
Seamer, in the East-Biding of Yorkshire, on the 25th. of 
March, 1851. 
Mountainous regions are their natural resort, which they 
leave for lower and more sheltered grounds when severe 
weather comes on. 
The Snow Buntings move southwards about the end of 
October, betaking themselves to the sea-shores of Scotland, 
and also to many parts of England in severe weather, retiring 
inland at intervals, or as it becomes milder, when they resort 
to farm-yards and roads, where they meet with grain of 
various kinds. In the year 1849, a few were seen at Waxham, 
near Yarmouth, in Norfolk, by W. E. Cater, Esq., of Queen’s 
College, Cambridge, as early as the 27th. of September. It 
would seem, from the fact of Mr. Macgillivray’s having seen 
both old and young birds together in the month of August, 
1830, that some build on the Grampian Hills, renowned in 
song as the dwelling of ‘Young Norval;’ but for the most 
part they remove to their more favourite haunts about the 
middle of April. The young appear to be only able to fly 
by about the end of July; and it is asserted that they 
venture farther southwards than the old birds. 
These birds, which are believed to pair for life, seem, at 
the time when they have young, to be fearless, it being but 
little experience of man, as an enemy, that they have had 
in their lonely climes. They are very good eaiing, as are 
