. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . st of the bunt-ing family, and placed in the genus Plectrophanes of thatauthor. Besides the slight elongation and straightness of thehinder claw, these species possess other characters assimilatingthem especially with the larks ; their habits are terrestrial,and as they walk upon the ground they move their feetalternately. These two species are usually found to frequentopen, exposed, and rocky situations; they perch, roost, andbreed upon the ground, and both are in summer chiefly con-fined to high northern latitudes. In common with th
. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . st of the bunt-ing family, and placed in the genus Plectrophanes of thatauthor. Besides the slight elongation and straightness of thehinder claw, these species possess other characters assimilatingthem especially with the larks ; their habits are terrestrial,and as they walk upon the ground they move their feetalternately. These two species are usually found to frequentopen, exposed, and rocky situations; they perch, roost, andbreed upon the ground, and both are in summer chiefly con-fined to high northern latitudes. In common with the trueBuntings, these birds feed upon grain, the seeds of variousplants, and insects. All the Buntings known in this countryhave but one general moult; but the difference between theyoung and old, and the male and female, and also the gradualchanges that annually take place in the adult, by the wearingaway of the edges of the feathers, cause a great disparity ofappearance among different individuals. The Snow Bunting is one of the hardiest of European %u„^, ,i: if %£%£ SNOW BUNTING. 35 birds, residing in summer within the Arctic circle, in thecoldest regions of the northern hemisphere, and extending itsmigration as far towards the pole as any European travellerhas at present penetrated. It is found in summer in themost northern parts of Sweden and Lapland, in Spitzbergen,Nova Zembla, Iceland, and other islands ; and in the coun-tries of Asia that border upon the icy sea ; also in the mostnorthern parts of America, as Greenland, &c. On the ap-proach of winter this species migrates southward, and in-undates various countries with its numberless flocks—such ascentral Siberia, Russia, and the south of Sweden ; also thesouthern part of Norway and its numerous islands. InNorth America it descends in winter to the regions aboutHudsons Bay and Canada, and if the season is very severepasses still lower. The coasts of Germany and Holland, ofScotland and England, are also visit
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