. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America . , though it occurs sparingly in southern New England, butis merely accidental farther to the northward. The only examplesthat have been met with in Canada were the few that Mr. WilliamE. Saunders found breeding at Point Pelee in southern Ontario. Mr. William Brewster, writing of this species, says: It is nowunquestionably one of the rarest species known to breed withinthis region (New England). Moreover, within the past two de-cades it has practically disappeared from the Middle States, whereit was formerly abundant, and at man
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America . , though it occurs sparingly in southern New England, butis merely accidental farther to the northward. The only examplesthat have been met with in Canada were the few that Mr. WilliamE. Saunders found breeding at Point Pelee in southern Ontario. Mr. William Brewster, writing of this species, says: It is nowunquestionably one of the rarest species known to breed withinthis region (New England). Moreover, within the past two de-cades it has practically disappeared from the Middle States, whereit was formerly abundant, and at many localities west of the Alle-ghanies and east of the Mississippi its numbers have diminishedsteadily and more or less rapidly. Note. — Towxsends Bunting {Spisa townsendii) was placedon the Hypothetical List by the A. O. U. Committee. The typespecimen taken by Mr. Townsend in Pennsylvania remains unique. The Lark Bunting {Calainospiza /nelanocorys) has been seenin Massachusetts and Long Island, — the only instances of its occurrence east of the Great bunting. white snow bird. .Plectrophen.^x nivalis. Char. In summer, prevailing color white; middle of back, wings, andtail mixed with black. In autumn the dark color is extended, the blackbeing broadly margined with tawny brown, which gradually becomes whiteas winter advances. Length about 6j^ inches. jVesf. On a barren hillside, under shelter of a rock or in a stone heap,sometimes in cavity of a sand-bank; compactly built of dry grass, plantstems, and moss, lined with feathers and hair. £^,i;s. 4-6 ; dull white, with faint tint of blue or green, spotted, chieflyaround larger end, with reddish brown and lavender: X This messenger of cold and stormy weather chiefly in-habits the higher regions of the Arctic circle, whence, as thesev-erity of the winter threatens, they migrate indifferently overEurope, eastern Asia, and the United States. On their way tothe South they appear round Hudson Bay in
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