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PLECTROPHANES NIVALIS. 



(SNOW-BUNTING.) 



Emberiza nivalis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 308, no. 1 (1766). 

 L Ortolan de Lorraine ?, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 323. 

 Emberiza notata, P. L. S. Muller, Nat. Syst. Suppl. p. 157. no. 28 (1776). 

 Emberiza lotharingica, Gm., partim, Syst. Nat. i. p. 882. no. 61 (1788). 

 Emberiza mustelina, Gm. torn. cit. p. 867. no. 7 (1788). 

 Emberiza montana, Gm. torn. cit. p. 867. no. 25 (1788). 

 Emberiza glacialis, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 398. no. 2 (1790). 



Plectrophanes nivalis (Linn.), Meyer, Taschenb. deutsch. Vogelk. i. p. 187 (1810). 

 Passerina borealis, Vieillot, N. Diet. xxv. p. 8 (1817). 

 Passerina nivalis (Linn.). Vieillot, Faun. Franc, p. 86 (1820?). 

 Plectrophanes hiemalis, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 304 (1831). 

 Plectrophanes borealis, Brehm, op. cit. p. 305 (1831). 



Emberiza borealis (Vieill.), Degland, Ornith. Europ. i. p. 273. no. 115 (1849). 



(The above by Lord Walden.) 



Snoio-Bunting, Snowflake, Snowbird, English ; Ortolan de neige, French ; Schneeammer, 

 Schnee Spornammer, German ; Be Sneeuwgors, Dutch ; Snespuv, Snekok, Snefinke, Snefugl, 

 Vinterfugl, Danish ; Snjouf uglur, Faeroese ; Koparnauarsuk, Greenlandic ; Sniotitlingr, 

 Solskrikia, Icelandic; Snespurv, Norwegian; Snosparf, Swedish; Lumisirkku, Finnish; 

 Podoroschnik, Eussian ; Snieguta, Polish. 



Figurce notabiles. 



Albin, Nat. Hist. Birds, iii. pi. 71 ; Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, iii. pi. 126 ; D'Aubenton, PI. 

 Enl. pi. 497. fig. 1, and pi. 511. fig. 2 ; Wilson, Amer. Ornith. pi. 21. fig. 2 ; Audubon, 

 Birds of Amer. pi. 365; Naum. Vogel. Deutschl. pis. 106, 107; Gould, Birds of Europe, 

 pi. 170. 



<J ad. ptil. (Est. albus : dorso, scapularibus et rectricibus centralibus nigris ; primariis nigris, ad basin albis : 

 secundariis albis : tectricibus alarum albis : alula, spuria njgri : rostro et pedibus nigris : iride brunnea. 



2 ad. ptil. test, capite et nucha, nigris, plumis omnibus conspicue griseo-albo marginatis : dorsi plumis saturate 

 nigris, vix griseo-albo marginatis : tectricibus alarum minimis nigris, albo marginatis : primariis fulves- 

 centi-nigris, vix albido marginatis : secundariis albis : cauda ut in mari picturat& sed pallidiore et griseo 

 adumbrata : subtus alba : rostro et pedibus brunnescenti-nigris. 



c? ad. ptil. hiem. capite suprk saturate rufescenti-brunneo, supr& oculos grisescenti-cervino : nucha saturate 

 alba ochrascente brunneo adumbrata : dorsi plumis et scapularibus nigris, conspicue rufescente brunneo 

 marginatis : uropygio rufescenti-brunneo : remigibus brunnescenti-nigris, vix albido marginatis et 



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