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SNOW BUNTING, 
SNOW FLAKE. SNOW FLECK. SNOW FOWL. TAWNT BUNTING. 
GREAT PIED MOUNTAIN FINCH. MOUNTAIN BUNTING. 
LESSER MOUNTAIN FINCH. BRAMBLING. GREATER BRAMRLING. 
Plectrophanes nivalis, 
Emberiza nivalis, 
“ glacialis , 
“ mustelina, 
“ montana , 
Meyer. Selby. 
Linnaeus. Gmelin. Latham. 
Latham. Pennant. 
Gmelin. 
Gmelin. Latham. Pennant. 
Plectrophanes. Plectron —A spur. Phaino —To shew. Nivalis — Snowy. 
The plate is taken from a drawing by my friend, the Rev. 
R. P. Alington, M.A., Rector of Swinhope, Lincolnshire. 
This pretty-looking species is a native of the icy countries 
of the Arctic regions, and the islands of the Polar seas. The 
Rev. Dr. Scoresby, whose name is so well known as Captain 
Scoresby, the hardy ‘voyageur’ to far severer climes than even 
those where the ‘Canadian Boat Song’ is heard, met with 
great numbers on the frozen lands of Spitzbergen. 
It is found in all the northern parts of Europe and America, 
and builds in the North Georgian Islands, Melville Island, 
Southampton Island, Lapland, Iceland, Nova Zembla, Green¬ 
land, Siberia, Norway, Sweden, the Ferroe Isles, and no doubt 
in various other northern countries; it occurs also in Germany, 
France, Austria, and Holland, and even in some instances in 
Italy. 
It is a winter visitant to Shetland and the Orkney Islands, 
where as many as fifty-seven have been killed at one shot; 
Scotland, and the north of England and Ireland, advancing 
in some few instances to the extreme south of our island; but 
it must be there sadly out of its element, like some Scotch 
