. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland . To Great Britain the Snow-Bunting is chiefly a winter visitor, generallyreaching the eastern coast of England in October, though rarely in September, andcommencing its return migration from March to April. Although rare in England * For this bird the geuus Plectiophaues, liaviiig beeu instituted for the liuiiling, has been Snow-Bunting s i^. ?. Plate 91 The Snow-Bunting 135 and Ireland, this bird is decidedly commoner in Scotland, where a few pairs remainto breed : the first nest being obtained in the Shetlands by Saxb}-, on Juh- and
. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland . To Great Britain the Snow-Bunting is chiefly a winter visitor, generallyreaching the eastern coast of England in October, though rarely in September, andcommencing its return migration from March to April. Although rare in England * For this bird the geuus Plectiophaues, liaviiig beeu instituted for the liuiiling, has been Snow-Bunting s i^. ?. Plate 91 The Snow-Bunting 135 and Ireland, this bird is decidedly commoner in Scotland, where a few pairs remainto breed : the first nest being obtained in the Shetlands by Saxb}-, on Juh- and,1861. In Jul}, 1886, Messrs. Peach and Hinanian found nest and 3-oung inSutherlandshire, and in June, 1888, Mr. John Young discovered a nest with fiveeggs. I believe it was obtained later by Mr. W. R. O. Graut. In 1903 nestswere found on the spurs of the Grampians, stretching southwards between Raunochand Glen Lyon, and in 1905 on a mountain still further south. The adult male in breeding-plumage has the mantle, scapulars, inner second-aries, terminal half of primaries, lour central tail-feathers and greater part of thenext pair black ; the outer webs edged with white ; outer feathers mostly white ;centre of lower back and rump black (with white edges to the feathers) but thesides white ; remainder of plumage white ; beak and feet leaden-black ; iris deephazel. The female h
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