SNOW B U N T I N G.
SNOW FL \K I'.. SNOW FLECK. s\()W FOWL.
TAWNY 111 VI INC. GREAT PIED MOUNTAIN FINCH.
Mill N'I'AIN HUNTING. LESSEE MO I" NT A IN FINCH.
B RAMBLING. 11 B 1-, \ I ER BRAMBLING.
Pltctnphanes nivalis,
Emih riza nivalis,
glacialis,
musti Una,
montana,
MEYER. SEL'BY.
LlNNvUUS. ( IMELIN. LATHAM.
LATHAM. PENNANT.
GMKLIN.
GMELIN. LATHAM. PENNANT.
Plativphants. P/eclron—A spur. Pliaitid—-To shew. Nivalis—Snowy.
THE plate is taken from a drawing by my friend, the Rev. R. P.
Alington, M.A., Rector of Swinhope, Lincolnshire.
This pretty-looking species is a native of the icy countries of the
Arctic regions, and the islands of the Polar seas. The Rev. Dr.
Seoresby, whose name is so well known as Captain Scoresby, the
hardy 'voyageur' to far severer climes than even those where the
'Canadian Boat Song' is heard, met with great numbers on the frozen
lauds of Spitsbergen.
It is found in all the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and
America, and builds in the North Georgian Islands, Melville Island,
Southampton Island, Lapland, Iceland, Nova Zembla, Greenland,
Siberia, Norway, Sweden, the Ferroe Isles, and no doubt in various
other northern countries; it occurs also in Germany, France, Austria,
and Holland, and even in some instances in Italy.
In Yorkshire it has occurred near Barnslcy in stormy weather,
in winter, as too near Poncaster, Huddersfield, Bradford, Sheffield,
Halifax. Pateley, and Burlington, sometimes in immense flocks, and in
the very severe weather in the beginning of 1855 T saw one near
Burnby.
It is a winter visitant to Shetland and the Orkney Islands, where