SNOW BIRD. 
(from Hudson's Bay, by Mr. Isliam. He 
says, it is one of the first small birds that ap- 
pear in the spring, while the earth is yet co- 
*:j^iered with snow, which has given it the name 
of Snow Bird. In Linnsns's History of 
Swedish Animals, this same bird is described 
; andriigured. See p. 73. Avis Nivahs. Tab. 1. 
Fig. 194. so that this bird proves to be 
equally an inhabitant of Europe and America, 
Some time since, being informed that there 
were some Snow Birds brought alive from 
Hudson^s Bay, I went on board a ship to see 
them, and found them to be no other than our 
Great Pyed Mountain Finch. This was about 
tlie latter end of September, when the perfe6i 
whiteness and blackness was changed into a 
brown and yellowish colour, with some white : 
so -that, I believe, this and our's do not speci- 
fically differ but that they are changed white 
itn the extreme cold and northern parts of the 
Iworld, as most other animals are,, during the 
evinter season.. Mr. Catesby, in his History 
>f Carolina, has figured and described a much 
imaller bird than this by the same name. His. 
lescription is — The Snow Bird, The bill 
)-ff this bird is white; the breast and belly 
white 'f 
