. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. 256 LAPLAND LONG SPUR. J 't ?, i. characterized both by form and habits. Tlio two apccicH of Plectro- phancB, to which wo apply the name of Longspur, together with the Buntings, are well (listin Finches. Their moult appears to be double, and notwithstanding Teni- minek's and my own statement to tho contrary, they differ much in their summer and winter plumage. Owing to this, the species have been thoughtlessly multiplied: there are in reality but two, the present, and Snow-Bunting of
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. 256 LAPLAND LONG SPUR. J 't ?, i. characterized both by form and habits. Tlio two apccicH of Plectro- phancB, to which wo apply the name of Longspur, together with the Buntings, are well (listin Finches. Their moult appears to be double, and notwithstanding Teni- minek's and my own statement to tho contrary, they differ much in their summer and winter plumage. Owing to this, the species have been thoughtlessly multiplied: there are in reality but two, the present, and Snow-Bunting of Wilson. The Male Lapland Longspur in full breeding dress, is nearly seven inches long, and twelve and a quarter in extent; the bill is nearly half an inch long, yellow, blackish at the point; the irides are hazel, and the feet dusky. The head is thickly furnished with feathers. The forepart of the neck, throat, and the breast, are glossy black ; the himl- head is of a fine reddish rusty ; a white line arises from the base of tho bill to the eye, behind which it becomes wider, descending on the sides of tho neck somewhat round the breast; the belly and vent are white; the flanks posteriorly with long blackish streaks. The back and scapu- lars are brownish black, tlie feathers being skirted with rusty; tho smaller wing coverts are blackish, margined with white, the greater coverts margineil with rufous, and white at tip. forming two white bamis across the wings: the primaries are blackish, edged with white; se- condaries emarginated at tip, dusky, edged with rusty : the wings when closed reach to three-fourths the tail. The tail is two and a half inches in length, rather forked, and of a blackish color ; the outer feather on each side with a white cuneiform spot; and the outer web almost entirely white : the second with a white cuneiform spot only. The hind nail is almost an inch Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digita
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