SNOW BIRD. 
nioiuli, there is a knob, or rising, as in the 
Bunting and Yellow Hammer ; (I have also 
observed the same in our Great Pyed Moun- : 
lain Finch , though it be not taken notice of 
by authors;) which is supposed to help them 
to bruise or break hard grain. The head, 
neck, and whole under side of the bird, are 
white ; except a small black spot on the hinder 
part of the head. The back, and the fea- 
thers immediately covering the tail, are black; 
the rump, between them, is white. The quills, 
for the first three or four next the back, are 
black ; the next to them, or the middle ones, 
are white; the largest or outermost quills, are 
black at their tips, and white at their bottoms. 
All the covert-feathers of the wings are white, j 
except a few that fall over the black quills next 
the back, the covert feathers within-side of the 
wings are also white. The tail is composed of 
twelve feathers ; the six middlemost are black, 
and three on each side are white, with a small 
dash of black down their shafts at the tips. 
I'he legs, feet, and claws, are of the common 
strudture in small birds, all of a black colour/' 
Edwards adds — This bird was brought 
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