B R I T I S H BIRDS .
PASS ERES. EMBERIZIDSR.
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P l e c t r o ph a n e s n iv a l is (Linnaeus*).
THE SNOW-BUNTING.
Plectrophanes nivalis.
Plectrophanes, B. Meyer f .—Bill hard, conical and short; the tipper mandible
narrower than the lower, the edges of both inflected and those of the
latter sinuated ; the palate furnished with a projecting bony knob. Nostrils
oval, basal and placed somewhat near the culmen, nearly hidden by small
feathers. Grape angular. Wings long and pointed : first primary finely attenuated
and so small as to seem wanting ; second and third nearly equal and the
longest in the wing, but the fourth is considerably longer than the fifth. Tail
* Emberiza nivalis, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 308 (1766).
t Zusätze und Berichtigungen zu Meyers und Wolfs Taschenbuch der deutschen
Vogelkunde, p. 56 (1822).
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