470 



SNOW FLECK. 



of ferruginous yellow, so common to the other species, serve to dis- 

 tinguish this new addition to the British Fauna. Two specimens only 

 are recorded, the one shot in Queen's county, Ireland, on the twenty- 

 second of August, 1822, and now in the collection of Mr. Vigors ; the 

 other on the banks of the Medway, near Rochester, on the twenty-sixth 

 of October, 1827, and preserved in the collection of Mr. Dunning, of 

 Maidstone.* 



SNITE. — A name for the Snipe. 



SNORTER. — A name for the Wheatear. 



SNOW BIRD {Larus ehurneus, Linn^us.) 



*Larus Eburneus, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 596. sp. 14 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 816. sp. 10. 



— Lams Niveus, Mart. Hist, der Spitzb. t. L. f. A La Mouette Blanche, Buff. 



Ois. 8. p. 422 lb. pi. Enl. p. 994 Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2. p. 769 Ivory 



Gull, Lath. Syn. 6. p. 377.— Larus Candidus, Flem. Br. Anim. p. 142.— Fab. 

 Fauna. Groen. p. 103. — Wern. Mem. 4. p. 501. 



A solitary individual of this species was killed at Batta Sound, Zet- 

 land, on the thirteenth of December, 1822, a description of which was 

 published in the Wernerian Memoirs, vol. iv., by Mr. Edmonston. The 

 plumage is pure white, without any spot ; the bill of an ashy blue 

 colour at the base ; the colour of the plumage is strongly contrasted 

 with the feet, which are of a deep black; the iris is brown ; length about 

 nineteen inches. Captain Sabine found these birds in great numbers 

 on the coast of Greenland, and in Baffin's Bay.* 



SNOW FLECK (Emberiza nivalis, LinnvEUS.) 



ADULT MALE, IN SUMMER PLUMAGE. 



*Emberiza nivalis, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 308. 1.— Faun. Suec. No. 227. t. 1.— Bruant 

 de neige, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 1. p. 319 — Emberiza nivalis, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 

 866. sp. 1. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 397. sp. 1. — Pheatrophanes nivalis, Meyer, 



Tasschenb. Deut L'Ortolan de neige, Buff. Ois. 4. p. 329 — lb. pi. Enl. 497. 



f. 1. — Schneeammer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 305 — Meyer, Tasschenb. 

 Deut. 1. p. 187.— Ib.Vog. Deut. 1. t. Heft. 12. f. 1. old male.— Snow-Bunting, 

 Br. Zool. 1. No. 122. t. 50.— Arct. Zool. 2. No. 222.— Fdw. t. 126. old male.— 

 Lath. Syn. 3. p. 161. — lb. Supp. p. 157. — Lewin's Br. Birds, 2. t. 71. — Mont. 

 Orn. Diet. 1. — lb. Supp. — Bewick's Br. Birds, 1. p. 148.— Shaw's Zool. 9. p. 

 341. t. 54. 



YOUNG MALES AND OLD FEMALES, IN WINTER PLUMAGE. 



Emberiza glacialis, Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 398. sp. 2. — Emberiza mustelina, Gmel. 

 Syst. 2. p. 867. sp. 7. — Montifringilla calcaribus alaudae, major, Raii, Syn. p. 



88. A. Will.— p. 187. t. 77 Greatpied Mountain Finch, lb. (Angl.) p. 255.— 



Tawny Bunting, Br. Zool. 1. No. 121.— Levin's Br. Birds, 2. t. 72 Lath. 



Syn. 3. p. 164. 2.— Mont. Orn. Diet. 1 lb. App Shaw's Zool. 9. p. 344.— 



Ortolan de passage, Buff. Ois. 4. p. 323. 



YOUNG OF THE YEAR. 



Emberiza montana, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 867. sp. 25 Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 398. sp. 



3 Lesser Mountain Finch, and Bramlin, Will. (Angl.) p. 255 Der Ber- 



gammer, Bechst. Tasschenb. Deut. 3. p. 314. t. 10 — Meyer, Vog. Deut. 1. 1. f. 

 2. and 3. — Mountain Bunting, Lath. Syn. 3. p. 165. sp. 3.— Mont. Orn. Diet. 



— Ib. Supp Shaw's Zool. 9. p. 346 Tawny Bunting, Bewick's Br. Birds, 1. 



p. t. 150 Flem. Br. Anim. p. 78 Selby, pi. 52. fig. 7. 



