Crass. SNOW BUNTING. 
Thefe birds are fometimes found in different 
parts of England, but are not common. I am 
unacquainted with their breeding places, or their 
hiftory : are fometimes found white, and then mif- 
taken for white larks. 
Emberiza nivalis. Lin. fy. Avis ignota a Piperino miffa. 
308. : _ Gefner av. 798. 
Snofparf. Faun. Suec. No. Scopolt, No. 214. 
227. Snow-bird, Edw. 126. Egede 
Le Pincon de neige ou la Greenl. 64. Marten’s Spitz- 
niverolle. Briffon, Ill. 162. bergen, 73. 
Cimbris, {neekok, vinter fugl. Forfter in Ph. Tr. vol. LXIE. 
Norvegis. Sneefugl, Fialfter. P:_403. 
Brunnich, 245. 
HE weight of this fpecies is one outice and 
a quarter: the bill and legs black: the 
forehead and crown white, with fome mixture of 
black on the hind part of the head: the back of 
a full black, the rump white: the baftard wing 
and ends of the greater coverts black, the others 
white: the quil-feathers black, their bafe white: 
the fecondaries white, with a black-fpot on their 
inner webs. © The. middle feathers of their tail 
black ; ‘the three outmoft white, with a dufky_ 
fpot near their ends: from chin to tail of a pure” 
_ white. 
Thefe birds are called in Scotland, Snow-flakes, 
from their appearance in hard weather and in deep 
Vou. I. A  fnows. 
329 
122. SNOW. 
