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SNOW FLECK. 
of ferrug-inous 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, LiNNiEUS.) 
*Larus Eburneus, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 596. sp. 14 — Lath. Tnd. Ora. 2. p. 816. sp. 10. 
— Larus Niveus, Mart. Hist, der Spitzb. t. L. f. A. — LaMouette Blanche, Bvff. 
Ois. 8. p. 422. — Ib, 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 (Emheynza nivalis, Linnaeus.) 
ADULT MALE, IN SUMMER PLUMAGE. 
*Emberiza nivalis, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 308. 1. — Faun. Suec. No. 227. t. 1. — Bruant 
de neige, Temm. Alan. d’Orn. 1. p. 319. — Emberiza nivalis, Gmel. Syst. 1. p, 
866. sp. I. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 397. sp. 1. — Pheatrophanes nivalis, Meyer, 
Tasschenb. Dent. — L’Ortolan de neige. Buff. Ois. 4. p. 329 — Ib. pi. Enl. 497. 
f. 1. — Schneearamer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 305 — Meyer, Tasschenb. 
Deut. 1. p. 187. — Ib. Yog. Dent. 1. t. Heft. 12. f. 1. old male. — Snovv'-Bunting, 
Br. Zool. 1. No. 122. t. 50. — Arct. Zool. 2. No. 222. — Edw. t. 126. old male. — 
Lath. Syn. 3. p. 161.^ — Ib. Supp. p. 157 . — Lewins Br. Birds, 2. t. 71. — Mont, 
Orn. Diet. l.—Ib. Supp. — Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. p. 148. — Shaw’s Zool. 9. p. 
341. t. 54. 
YOUNG MALES AND OLD FEBIALES, IN WINTER PLUMAGE. 
Emberiza glacialis. Lath. Ind. Ora. 1. p. 398. sp. 2. — Emberiza mustelina, Gmel. 
Syst. 2. p. 867. sp. 7. — Alontifringilla calcaribus alaudae, major, Fail, Syn. p. 
88. A. Will. — p. 187. t. 77. — Greatpied Alountain Finch, Ib. (Angl.) p. 255. — 
Tawny Bunting, Br. Zool. 1. No. 121. — Lewin’s Br. Birds, 2. t. 72 — Lath. 
Syn. 3. p. 164. 2. — Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. — Ib. 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 Alountain Finch, and Bramlin, Will. (Angl.) p. 255. — Der Ber- 
gammer, Bechst. Tasschenb. Deut. 3. p. 314. t. 10 — Meyer, Vbg, 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. 
