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west, but they inter- 
grade — confusingly, 
and their nidification 
is essentially the same. 
A snow-bird is a snow- 
bird from one end of 
the country to the oth- 
er, and the sharp, me- 
tallic note is charae- 
teristic of the whole 
genus. 
Truer spirits of the 
driving snow—for the 
junco is a sort of fair- 
weather bird after all 
—are the snow-bunt- 
ings, or snow- flakes, 
or white snow-birds, 
or, absurdest of all, 
| "4 Winter - geese, as the 
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f PNT bees Y them. Their system- 
CARDINAL-GROSSBEAK, 
atic name is Plectro- 
phanes nivalis, and their plumage is handsomely marked 
