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lesser wing coverts pale rufous ; middle ones black, edged with 

 yellow, and tipped with white, forming a bar on the wing; quills 

 black, with pale yellowish green edges; tail the same, a little forked 

 in shape; legs black, hind claw long. 



The female differs from the male, in being paler. 



This species is found in Lapland, and in the Ferroe Islands ; the 

 north parts of Siberia, and near the Uralian Chain, where it breeds; 

 arrives in flocks from the south, and frequents the fields at the first 

 flowering of the Whitlow grass':* note nearly like that of a Linnet, 

 but its flight is higher, and more lasting; runs on the ground like a 

 Lark, and feeds on seeds : it also inhabits, though less frequently, 

 the fields of the inner Bay of Greenland, and makes a nest, in June, 

 of moss and grass, lined with feathers ; lays five or six brownish 

 slate-coloured eggs, mixed with a duller colour. Migrates into 

 America in autumn ; found at Hudson's Bay, and there called Tecu- 

 mashish ; but it seems to differ in size, as Dr. Forster makes the 

 length only five inches, breadth seven, and weight half an ounce; 

 but adds, that the description in the Fauna Suecica best answers to 

 his bird : it is found about Severn River, in winter only, appearing 

 first in November, and is "commonly seen among the juniper trees. 

 Fabricius, in his Fauna Groenlandica, thinks it to be the same bird 

 with my Passerine Bunting. 



18.— SNOW FINCH. 



Fringilla nivalis, Ind.OrnA. 440. Lin.i. 321. Gm. Lin. i. 911. Br is. iii. 162. 1. 15. 



1. Id. 8vo. i. 351. Faun. Helvet. Gmel. Reise, iv. 168. Shaw's Zool. ix. 492. 



Tern Man. d'Orn. 223. Id. Ed. ii. p. 363. 

 Snow Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 264. Amer. Orn. i. pi. 21. f. 2. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill black; head and hind part of the 

 neck cinereous ; back, scapulars, and rump grey brown ; margins 



* Draba Vernans. 



