FINUIIES, Sl’AltltOWS, ETC. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     fat as butter balls. In inidwinter. in the far north. when the ther- 
     
     mometer showed thirty degrees below zero, and the chill blizzard was 
     
     blowing 0n the plains, I have seen this brave little bird gleefully 
     
     chasing his fellows. and pouring out as he ilew his sweet, voluble song 
     
     with as much spirit as ever Skylark has in the sunniest days of June. 
     
     As long as the snow lasts the Snowflake stays, aml as soon as the 
     
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     ground grows bare and there is promise of better d 
     
    
   
   
    
     winter betakes himself again to the north, as far as ever human foot 
     
     has: been, and there builds his nest. ERNEST 1*}. THOMPSON. 
     
    
   
   
    
     536. Calcarius lapponicus (Li/112.). Livi'mxn LONGSI’L’R. Ad. 6 
     
     in SIM/Mllel‘rillllltl toe—nail as long as or longer than toe; head neek7 throat, 
     
     and breast black; a may line behind the eye; nape rut‘ous; back streaked 
     
     with blaek and oehraeeous— and eream—butl'; tail 
     
     t'useous, the two outer t‘eathers with more or less 
     
     White; belly white; sides streaked with blaek. 
     
     Ar]. 9 in ew/znm'.!L'pper parts streaked with 
     
     blaek, rufous, oehraeeous- and eream—butf; nape 
     
     oehraeeous-lmtl', the eolor sometimes eoneealed 
     
     by the tips of the feathers; tail t'useous. the outer 
     
     one or two feathers marked with white; under 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     parts white. the breast and sides streaked ‘\.\'1t'l1 Fm, 81.—-IIind toe of Lap- 
     
    

    
     blaek and oehraeeous—liutl. 6 m Ir/ntwr.;mnn- land Lengspur. 
     
    

    
     lar to 9 in summer, but upper parts blaeker, nape 
     
    

    
     more rut'ous. breast more heavily marked with black. most of" the feathers 
     
    

    
     blaek at the base. 9/11 Hw'ntezx—Similar to 9 in summer. but upper parts duller, 
     
    

    
     nape with little or no oehraeeous. L.. .. 3'75: Ta 2'55; 13., ‘40. 
     
     [fez/inflagln some plumages this lnrd bears a general resemblance to cer— 
     
    

    
     tain Sparrows. but ditl'ers from them in having the hind toeqiail as long as or 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     longer than the toe. 
     
    

    
     ]i’«112{7u.—“Northern portions of‘ the northern hemisphere. breeding far 
     
     north: in North Ameriea. south in winter to the northern United States, 
     
     irregularly to the Middle States. aeeidentalhv to South (,‘arolina.’7 
     
    

    
     \\":isliiiigtx)ii. W. \'.. easual, one instanee, llec. Sing; Sing, \V. V., casual. 
     
    

    
     A131. ot're-rnsses and moss lined with grasses, on the, ground. I'll/ye, four 
     
     to six, bluish white, almost ohseured by a uniform grayish brown, ’89. x '60. 
     
    

    
     In the east Lapland Longspurs are generally found among flocks 
     
     of Shorelarks or Snowflakes, but on the western plains they occur in 
     
     grntt numbers. “ High in the air they fly in long, straggling flocks, 
     
     all singing together; a thousand voices. a tornado of whistling. . . . 
     
     When in the fields they have a (‘urious habit of squatting just behind 
     
     some elod. and. as their eolors are n -arly matched to the soil. they are 
     
     not. easily observed. nor will they move until you are within a few 
     
     feet; they then run a few feet and squat again. . . ." (Thompson). 
     
    
   
   
    
     537. Calcarius pictus ( Sire/Vim. Surrn‘s Loxosrric. All. 6 [1/ sum— 
     
     mon—Top and sides of the head bluek, a line over the eye and the ear-covert!) 
     
    
   
   
    
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