. Une histoire de la oiseaux. Les oiseaux. 130 OISEAUX BEITISH. posséder. Leur principal hante pendant leur séjour dans ce pays sont les terres près de la mer ; ils n'ont pas l'habitude de se promener loin de la côte, et sont rarement vus à l'intérieur des terres enregistrer lorsqu'un sharp ou exceptionnellement longue période de mauvais temps les pousse à des localités plus abritées. Dans leur hahits ils ressemblent beaucoup Bramblings, et sont souvent vus sur le chaume et les mauvaises herbes des pâturages. Ils volent dans les troupeaux très compact, et souvent la roue et tourner à propos avec une grande rapidité avant qu'ils descendre. Ils ne peuvent pas être appelé très timide, mais les oiseaux sont un peu méfiants, et

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. A history of British birds. Birds. 130 BEITISH BIRDS. possess. Their principal haunts during their sojourn in this country are the lands near the sea; they do not usually wander far from the coast, and are rarely seen inland save when an exceptionally sharp or long spell of stormy weather drives them to more sheltered localities. In their hahits they much resemble Bramblings, and are often seen on stubbles and weedy pastures. They fly in very compact flocks, and often wheel and turn about with great rapidity before they alight. They cannot be called very shy birds, but are somewhat wary, and soon become wild if repeatedly fired at. Their food at this season is largely composed of grass-seeds; and when these are difficult to obtain (as, for instance, in heavy snows) they will even visit the stackyards or pick up a scanty sustenance from the droppings on the roads. In this country the Snow-Bunting is very erratic in its appearance, and is incessantly changing its ground, after the manner of a true gipsy migrant. The frost brings them to the sheltered districts; but the first thaw disperses them again. The adult male Snow-Bunting in full breeding-plumage is black and white; the mantle, scapulars, innermost secondaries, the terminal half of the primaries, the four centre tail-feathers, most of the next, and the tips of the three outside feathers on each side are deep black; all the rest of the plumage is snowy white. Bill black; legs, toes, and claws black; irides hazel. The adult female in breeding-plumage differs from the male in having the black replaced by dark brown, which extends also onto the head and wing-coverts, and in having traces of the pale edges still left on all the dark feathers. The soft parts are similar to the male. After the autumn moult every feather on the upper parts and the feathers of the breast and fianks have broad edgings of chestnut-brown, and the bill changes to orange-yellow, darker at the tip. The young in first plumage is an entirely

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