518 SNOW BUNTING. 



which colour are the other feathers, all being tipped and edged with 

 whitish ; upper tail-coverts brownish-black, with a large white tip. 



Length 7 inches, extent of wings 13 ; bill along the back nearly 1^7 

 along the edge -^^ ; tarsus ^\. 



Young bird in winter. Plate CLXXXIX. Fig. 3. 



The young bird in autumn and winter has the bill of a more rufous tint, 

 the legs dusky brown, the head deep reddish-brown tinged with grey, a 

 rufous band across the fore part of the breast, the back streaked with 

 blackish-brown and light red ; the wing coverts dark coloured, and the 

 white of the quills less extended. On the lower parts the white is also less 

 pure. 



