. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland . uttered the slightest sound, nor have others whichI have owned more recentl3^ and although fairly tame they all showed a skulkingdisposition, rarely appearing in the open part of the aviary excepting to feed, andshowing none of that somewhat sprightly activity which characterizes this speciesin its wild state. As an aviary bird, I can, therefore, only recommend thisBunting on account of its quiet beauty of plumage and absolute innocence. Family^ Subfamily— The Lapland Bunting. CahdriKs /(ifpoiiiais, Lixx. INHABITS the greater part
. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland . uttered the slightest sound, nor have others whichI have owned more recentl3^ and although fairly tame they all showed a skulkingdisposition, rarely appearing in the open part of the aviary excepting to feed, andshowing none of that somewhat sprightly activity which characterizes this speciesin its wild state. As an aviary bird, I can, therefore, only recommend thisBunting on account of its quiet beauty of plumage and absolute innocence. Family^ Subfamily— The Lapland Bunting. CahdriKs /(ifpoiiiais, Lixx. INHABITS the greater part of the circumpolar regions, with the exception ofIceland—to which it is only an occasional straggler from Greenland—andSpitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya, whence it has not yet been recorded. Itis only at considerable elevations, such as the Dovre Fjeld, in Norway, that it isfound breeding to the south of the Arctic circle ; but east of the North Cape itis common in Lapland, while in Northern Siberia it is extremely abundant, being,. , ■^> o Oz — c h =^-z r; 3 .1CD Q- D z< < TnK Lapland Buxtixg 131 according to Mr. Seebolim, not only the commonest, bnt also the most widelydistributed bird on the tundras. In Asia it migrates further southwards than inEurope, reaching tu about 30° N. lat. in China ; whereas it is rare in the southof Russia and in Northern Italy, and as yet unknown iu Spain. In CentralEurope its occurrences are accidental, but further north they are naturally morefrequent, and are regular on Heligoland in autumn. In America this speciesbreeds throughout the far mn-th ; wintering iu vSouth Carolina, Kansas, andColorado. (Howard Saunders, ]\Ianual of British Birds, pp. :; 13-214). To Great Britain this species is an occasional, though not very infrequentvisitor; upwards of forty examples apparently having been obtained previous to1890, since Selby first recognized the bird, amongst some Larks forwarded toLeadenhall Market from Cambridgeshire, early i
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