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Snow Bunting, Emberiza nivalis, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. iii. p. 86. 



Emberiza nivalis, Bonap. Syn., p. 103. 



Emberiza (Plectrophanes) nivalis, Snow Bunting, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer., 



vol. ii. p. 247. 

 Snow Bunting, Emberiza nivalis, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 458. 

 Snow Bdnting, Emberiza nivalis, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 515; vol. v. p. 496. 



Male and Female in winter. 



Male, in winter, with the head, neck, lower parts, a great portion of the 

 wings, including the smaller coverts, secondary coverts, several secondary 

 quills, the bases of the primaries and their coverts, and the greater part of 

 the outer tail-feathers on each side, white; the head and hind neck more or 

 less tinged with brownish-red, the upper parts reddish-grey or yellowish-red, 

 mottled with black, the concealed part of the plumage being of the latter 

 colour, the bill brownish-yellow. Female, in winter, with the white less 

 extended. Young, at this season, like the female, but more brown. Male, 

 in summer, with the back, scapulars, inner secondaries, terminal portion of 

 primaries, and four middle tail-feathers, deep black, all the other parts pure 

 white, the bill black. Female with the black parts tinged with brown, and 

 more or less reddish-brown on the head and rump. 



Male, 7, 13. 



Vol. III. 



