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SNOW I'lNC’H. 
nissct grey; the others white, tipped with u slight black 
spot bordered with russet; the most external feather 
on each side entirely white; beak black; feet and iris, 
brown. 
In autumn the colours of the male arc browner 
above, the black mark on the neck less extended, and 
the borders of the feathers which form it ashy; beak 
yellowish, and the feet of a darker brown. 
The female does not differ from the male, (;xccpt 
by the ash-coloured head, which runs into russet, and 
the absence of the black mark on the neck. 
The young before their first moult are above and 
on the sides of the head and nape of an ashy brown, 
with the feathers broadly bordered wdth russet; back 
and scapularies brown, with the feathers bordered with 
red; front and sides of the neck ashy white; cro]3, ab- 
domen, and under tail coverts of a russet white ; the white 
feathers of the wings and tail, washed with an ochreous 
red on their borders; the black feathers of the same 
parts bordered and tipped with russet; beak saffron 
yellow; feet russet brown. — (Degland.) 
Figured also by Buffon, Brisson, Wilson, Temminck, 
etc. By Roux, Ornith. Prov., pi. 89, (male in winter 
plumage;) Bouteil, Ornith. du Dauph., pi. 35, fig. 1; 
Naumann, Vogel Deutschlands, pi. 117; Gould, B. of 
E., pi. 189. 
