BRITISH BIRDS. 



PASSE RES. 



EMBERlZIDJi 



Plectrophanes nivalis (Linnaeus*). 

 THE SNOW-BUNTING. 



Plectrojjhanes nivalis. 



Plectrophanes, B. Meyer \. — Bill hard, conical and short; the upper man- 

 dible narrower than the lower, the edges of both inflected and those of the 

 latter sinuated ; the palate furnished with a projecting bony knob. Nostrils 

 oval, basal and placed somewhat near the ciilmen, nearly hidden by small 

 feathers. Gape angular. Wings long and pointed : first primary finely attenu- 

 ated and so small as to seem wanting ; second and third nearly equal and the 

 longest in the wing, but the fourth is considerably longer than the fifth. Tail 



* Emberiza nivalis, Linnanis, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 308 (1766). 

 t Zusatze und Beriehtigungen zu Meyers und Wolfs Taschenbujh der deutschen 

 Viigelkunde, p. .56 (1822). 



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