LAPLAND BUNTING.
L A P L A N D LARK H I N T I N G . LAPLAND F I N C H . LAPLAND L O N G - S P U R.
L A R K - H E E L E D B U N T I N G.
Piectrophanes lapponica,
Emberiza lapponica,
" calcara ¿a,
Fringilla lapponica,
" calcaraia,
" won/aria,
Ptectrophanes. Pitctron—A spur.
Lapponica—Of Lapland.
SELHY.
TEMMINCK.
LINNAEUS. LATHAM.
PALLAS.
BRLSSON.
Phaitio—To shew.
Lapponia—Lapland.
THIS bird is a native both of Europe and Asia, being found along
the Uraliau chain of mountains which separate the two continents;
and, in the former, in Sweden, Lapland, Spitsbergen, the Ferroe Islands,
Greenland, Iceland, and a few so far south as Germany, France, Prussia,
Poland, Silesia, and Switzerland, and in Asia in Siberia. It occurs
also in the Arctic portions of North America, and some stragglers arc
occasionally seen in the more southern parts of that portion of the
continent.
In this country one was purchased some years ago in the London
market; a second was taken on the Downs, near Brighton, in the county
of Sussex; and a third in the same neighbourhood on the 30th. of
September, 1844. A fourth was captured in a Lark-net in October,
1846, also in Sussex, and a fifth was shot near the toll-gate at Uortingdean
in the same county, November, 1848. A sixth was captured in
September, 18°/8, a few miles north of London; a seventh was caught
near Preston, in Lancashire, in the month of October, in the year 1833;
and an eighth was taken in a trap by a bird-catcher, near Kendal, in
Westmoreland, at the end of June or beginning of July. It was
either a female or a young male, as were all the other recorded
specimens, excepting the second of those taken near Brighton. In
Scut land it has occurred in C'aithnesshire.