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SNOW BUNTING.
which colour are the other feathers, all being tipped and edged with whitish ; upper tail-coverts brownish-black, with a large white tip.
Length 7 inches, extent of wings 13 ; bill along the back nearly 1^7 along the edge -^^ ; tarsus ^.
Young bird in winter. Plate CLXXXIX. Fig. 3.
The young bird in autumn and winter has the bill of a more rufous tint, the legs dusky brown, the head deep reddish-brown tinged with grey, a rufous band across the fore part of the breast, the back streaked with blackish-brown and light red ; the wing coverts dark coloured, and the white of the quills less extended. On the lower parts the white is also less pure.
