The Birds Like Snow-Flakes 



A shepherd saw, as he thought, some white larks on a down 

 above my house this winter : were not these the snow-flake ? G. W. 



THE snow-bunting is prettily called " snow-flake " ; for 

 these birds in a flock do indeed look like snow-flakes 

 when seen against a grey sky. These are winter 

 visitors, coming from far Arctic regions. In some 

 winters many small flocks are seen on our eastern 

 coasts. 



The head and under parts are white, the upper parts 

 black ; and Arctic travellers say, against the snow the 

 white bodies hardly can be seen, and the birds look 

 more like a flock of black butterflies than of birds 

 they have a dancing, wayward flight, very much like 

 butterflies. 



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