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west, but they inter- 

 grade conf using] y, 

 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 charac- 

 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, 

 winter - geese, as the 

 Nahant fishermen call 

 them. Their system- 

 atic name is Plectro- 

 phanes nivalis, and their plumage is handsomely marked 



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