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PLECTROPHANES NIVALIS. THE SNOW LARK- 

 BUNTING, OR SNOWFLAKE. 



SNOW BUNTING. SNOW FOWL. OAT FOWL. lAN-ANT'SNEACHD. 



Fig. 81. 



Emberiza nivalis. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 308. 

 Emberiza nivalis. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 397. Adult in summer. 

 Emberiza montana. Lath. Ind. Oi-n. T. 398. Young in winter. 

 Snow Bunting. Mont. Orn. Diet. Suppt. Adult in summer. 

 Tawny Bunting, Mont. Orn. Diet. Suppt. Adult in winter. 

 Mountain Bunting. Mont. Orn. Diet. Young Female in winter. 

 Bruant de niege. Emberiza nivalis. Temra. Man. d'Orn. I. 319. 

 Snow Bunting. Plectrophanes nivalis. Selb. lUustr. I. 279. 

 Emberiza nivalis. Snow Bunting. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 129. 



Male in winter, icith the upper part of the head, cheeks, and 

 a hand on the lower neck light reddish-brown, the lower parts 

 ti'hite, the upper black, the feathers edged with yelloicish-broicn ; 

 a patch of white on the icing, including the smaller coverts, and 

 some of the secondary coverts and secondary quills ; the three 

 outer tailfeathers nearly ichite. Female in icinter similar to the 

 male, but darker, and with more reddish-brown on the head and 

 breast, and less white on the icings. 



Male in summer, with the head, neck, lower parts and a patch 

 on the wings pure white, the rest black. Female icith the same 

 parts white, but the head, cheeks, and a band on the neck tinged 



