BRITISH BIRDS. 



22C) 



THE SNOW BUNTING. 



WINTER PLUMAGE. 



BILL short, yellow, and blackish at the tip; 

 crown of the head tawny; forehead chesnut; hinder 

 part of the neck and cheeks the same, but paler; 

 throat, sides of the neck, and space round the eyes 

 dirty white; breast dull yellow; under parts white, 

 in some tinged with yellow; the back and scapulars 

 black, edged with reddish brown; quill feathers 

 dusky, edged with white ; secondaries white on the 

 outer edges; greater coverts black, tipped with 

 white, which, when the wing is closed, forms a 

 patch of that colour upon it; upper tail coverts 

 yellow; tail a little forked, the two outermost 

 feathers white, the third black, tipped with w T hite, 

 the rest wholly black; legs short and black; hinder 

 claws almost as long, but more bent than those 



