. Report on the birds of Pennsylvania : with special reference to the food habits, based on over four thousand stomach examinations. Birds. 232 BIRDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Plate 57. Genus PLECTROPHENAX Stejneger. Plectrophenax nivalis (Linn.). Snowflake ; Suqw Bunting ; White Snow-bird. Description (P/a<cS4). Length about 7 inches ; extent about 121 ; legs black. * Adult in ivinter jjlamage.—Bill brownish-yellow, darker at point; upper parts generally brownish and blackish ; central tail feathers and most of the primaries for about half their length towards ends, blackish ; under surface of wing
. Report on the birds of Pennsylvania : with special reference to the food habits, based on over four thousand stomach examinations. Birds. 232 BIRDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Plate 57. Genus PLECTROPHENAX Stejneger. Plectrophenax nivalis (Linn.). Snowflake ; Suqw Bunting ; White Snow-bird. Description (P/a<cS4). Length about 7 inches ; extent about 121 ; legs black. * Adult in ivinter jjlamage.—Bill brownish-yellow, darker at point; upper parts generally brownish and blackish ; central tail feathers and most of the primaries for about half their length towards ends, blackish ; under surface of wings, most of sec- ondaries, and lateral tail feathers chiefly white. Under parts chielly white, sides of head and chest are more or less distinctly marked with rusty. The female is smaller than male and has less white on wing. Habitat.—Northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere, breeding in the Arctic re- gions ; in North America, south in winter into the northern United States, irregu- larly to Georgia, southern Illinois and Kansas. This beautiful bird, readily recognized by its white and rusty plum ag-e occurs in Pennsylvania only as an occasional winter visitant, except in tb'^ region about Lake Erie, where Mr. Bennett, and other observers assure me it is found as a reg-ular winter sojourner. In 1889, Mr. Geo. Kussell, of Erie city, killed one of these birds as early as the 12th of October, at the bay, Avhere I observed this species in flocks of two hun- dred or more, in November and December of the same year. When noted in the other parts of the state SnowHakes are usually seen in flocks, which sometimes contain one, two or three hundred each. The Snow Bimting, during its stay in this region, subsists mainly on seeds of various weeds, grasses, etc., which it finds in fields and meadows. Genus CALCARIUS Bechstein. Calcarius lapponicus (Linn.). Lapland liongspur. Description. Bill moderate ; hind claw straightish with its digit longer than the middle toe and claw. Adult male
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