$o THE NATURAL HISTORY - 
—Grnus 72. an MB eR 1.2 A. 
The bill is ftrong, and conic, the fides of each mandi« 
ble bending inwards; in the roof of the upper mandible {8 
a hard knob, well formed for the purpofes of breaking, and 
bruifi fing hard feeds. 
THe SNOW-BUNTING,. 
_ Like fome other birds that inhabit cold cli- 
mates, has a fummer and a winter drefs ; in the 
~ fummer the plumage is tawney, but at the approach 
of winter, the head, the neck, the ftomach, 
and great part of the wings, become white. 
Linneus 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 leaft when 
they are with us, how they can fubfift in Spit 
bergen, where there is fcarcely any vegetation, 
except of moles, and plants of that clafs. _ 
~ <In the winter they leave thefe dreary regions, 
and come to warmer climates, in amazing nume 
bers; they fill the roads and fields in Sweden. 
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