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Snow Bunting, Emberiza nivalis , Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. iii. p. 86. 
Emberiza nivalis, Bonap. Syn., p. 103. 
Emberiza (Plectropiianes) nivalis, Snow Bunting, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. 
Amer., vol. ii. p. 247. 
Snow Bunting, Emberiza nivalis, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 458. 
Snow Bunting, Emberiza nivalis, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 515 ; vol. v. p, 496, 
Male and Female in winter. 
Male, in winter, with the head, neck, lower parts, a great portion of the 
wings, including the smaller coverts, secondary coverts, several secondary 
quills, the bases of the primaries and their coverts, and the greater part of 
the outer tail-feathers on each side, white ; the head and hind neck more or 
less tinged with brownish-red, the upper parts reddish-grey or yellowish-red, 
mottled with black, the concealed part of the plumage being of the latter 
colour, the bill brownish-yellow. Female, in winter, with the white less 
extended. Young, at this season, like the female, but more brown. Male, 
in summer, with the back, scapulars, inner secondaries, terminal portion of 
primaries, and four middle tail-feathers, deep black, all the other parts pure 
white, the bill black. Female Avith the black parts tinged with brown, and 
more or less reddish-broAvn on the head and rump. 
Male, 7, 13. 
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