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SNOW BUNTING* 

 (Emberiza nivalis.) 



E. remigibus albis,primoribus extrorsum nigris, rectricibas nigris, 



lateribus tribus albis. 

 Bunting with the quills white, the primaries outwardly black ; 



tail-feathers black, the three outer ones white. 

 Emberiza nivalis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 308. 1. — Lin. Faun. Suec. 



227- l.—Gmel. Syst. Nat. I; 866.— Phil. Trans. 6 1. 403. 11. 



— Lath. Ind, Orn. 1. 397. 1. 

 Hortulanus nivalis. Briss. 3. 285, Q. 

 L'Ortolan de neige. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 329.— Biif. PL 



Enl. 497. 1. 

 Pied Mountain Finch. Al'bin. Birds. 3. J\. 

 Snow Bunting. Pen. Brit. Zool. 2- 122. 50. — Pen. Arct. Z00L 



2. 222. — Edivards. 120. — Lewin. Brit. Birds. 2. fl. — Lath. 



Gen. Syn. 3. 16 1. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 157- — Bewick. Brit. Birds. 



1. 1-18. — Mont. Brit. Birds. I.— Mont. Sup. 



As this and the two following birds have been 

 frequently confounded together, we shall give the 

 descriptions of them from the Supplement to the 

 Ornithological Dictionary by Mr. Montagu. 



The Snow Bunting is thus described : (i Beak 

 yellowish, with the tip black : the whole head, 

 neck, upper part of the back, and all the under 

 parts white, except a tinge of rust-colour on the 

 forehead and back of the head ^ the rest of the 

 back, scapulars, and tertials black, margined with 

 rufous white : the upper tail-coverts white : the 

 bastard wing black ; the prime quills black half 

 way from their points, except on the inner webs 

 of some, their base and the whole of the seconda- 



