572 



FEINGILLIDiE. 



57. PLECTROPHENAX. 



Type. 



Plectrophanes, and. (nee Meyer). 



Plectropbenax, Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat, Mus. v. p. 33 



(1882) ' P- nivalis. 



Wing of Plectrophenax nivalis. 



Eant/e. The northern portions of both hemispheres, ranging south- 

 ward in winter. 



1. Plectrophenax nivalis. 



The Lesser Pied Mountain Finch, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. iii. pi. 71 



(1740). 

 The Snow-bird from Hudson's Bay, Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. iii. 



p. 126 (1750). 

 L'Ortolan de Neige, Briss. Om. iii. p. 285 (1760) ; Daubent, PL Bid. 



v. pi. 497. fig. 1. 

 Emberiza nivalis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 308 (1766) ; Meyer u. Wolf, 



Taschenb. p. 187 (1810) ; Pall, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 32 (1811) ; 



Wils. Amer. Orn. iii. p. 36, pi. 21. fig. 2 (1811) ; Koch, Syst. baier. 



Zool. p. 213 (1816); Temm. Man. cFOrn. p. 319 (1820) ; Naum. 



Vog. Deutschl, iv. pis. 106, 107 (1824) ; Werner, Atlas, Granivores, 



pi. 28 (1827); Nutt. Man. i. p. 458 (1832); Menetr. Cat. rais. 



Cam. p. 41 (1832) ; Audub. B. Amer. pi. 189 ; id. Orn. Biogr. 



ii. p. 315 (1834), v. p. 496 (1839) ; Nordm. in Demid. Voy. Buss. 



Merid. iii. p. 177 (1840) ; Ejcerb. Om. Dan. pi. 25. fig. 5 (1852) ; 



Schl. Vog. Nederl. pi. 159 (1854) ; Sundev. Svensk. Fogl. pi. 7. 



figs. 5, 6, 7 (1856) ; Schl. Bier. Nederl., Vog. pi. 15. figs. 10, 11 



(1861); F. # P. Godman, Ibis, 1861, p. 83; Bowley, Ibis, 1862, 



p. 89 ; A. Neivt, in Baring Gould's Iceland, p. 409 (1863) ; Wriqht, 



Ibis, 1864, p. 55 ; Gray, Hand-l, B. ii. p. 116, no. 7727 (1870) ; 



Wright, Pbis, 1870, p. 490 ; Hurting, Handb. Brit. B. p. 25 (1872) ; 



Wright, Ibis, 1874, p. 233; Cordeau.v, Ibis, 1875, p. 182; Fallon, 



Ois. Belg. p. 90 (1875); Seebohm, Ibis, 1882, pp. 217, 379; id. 



Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 125 (1883). 

 Ortolan de passage, Daubent, PI, Enl, v. pi. 511. fig. 2. 

 L'Ortolan de Lorraine, femelle, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 323 



(1778). 



