. Our northern and eastern birds [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces, together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs ; with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. THE SNOW BUNTING. 297 and small shell-fish, and become, during their stay hero, very fat, and are accounted as delicato by epicures, fo
. Our northern and eastern birds [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces, together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs ; with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. THE SNOW BUNTING. 297 and small shell-fish, and become, during their stay hero, very fat, and are accounted as delicato by epicures, for whose tables they are killed in great numbers. The following interesting account of the habits of tliis species is b^ Wilson. It is partly compiled from the observu- tious of Mr. Peimant: — "These birds," says Mr. Peunant, "inhabit, not only Greenland, but even the dreadful climate of Spitzbergen wliere vegetation is nearly extinct, and scarcely any but „^^ . _ ci'yptoyamous plants are found. It tlierefore excites wonder, how birds which are graminivorous in every other than those frost-bound regions subs' .,, yet are there found in great Hocks, both on the laud and ice of Spitzbergen. They annually pass to this country by way of Norway; for, in the spring, flocks innumer- able appear, especially on the Nor- wegian isles, continue only three weeks, and then at once disappear. As they do not breed in Hudson's Bay, it is certain that many retreat to this last of lands, and totally uninhabited., to perform, in full security; the duties of love, incubation, and nutrition. That they breed in Spitzbergen is very probable; but we are assured that they do so in Greenland. They arrive there in April, and make their nests in the fissures of the rocks on the mountains in May: the outside of their nest is grass, the middle of feathers, and the lining the down of thii arctic fox. They lay five eggs, — white, spotted with brown: they oing finely near their nest. "
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