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Plectrophenax or Plectrophanes nivalis
Snowbird Snow"bird, n. (Zo["o]l.) (a) An arctic finch (Plectrophenax, or Plectrophanes, nivalis) common, in winter, both in Europe and the United States, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. It is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. Called also snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight. (b) Any finch of the genus Junco which appears in flocks in winter time, especially J. hyemalis in the Eastern United States; -- called also blue snowbird. See Junco. (c) The fieldfare. [Prov. Eng.]

Meaning of Plectrophanes from wikipedia

- rufous-winged lark bunting. He placed it in the genus Plectrophanes and coined the binomial name Plectrophanes mccownii. It was moved into its own genus Rhynchophanes...
- longspur Calcarius lapponicus (French: plectrophane lapon) – A Snow bunting Plectrophenax nivalis (French: plectrophane des neiges) – A Order: P****eriformes   Family:...
- La Ch****e aux autres Les Cormorans L'Oeuvre de pierre Pour voir les plectrophanes naitre Emmanuelle en noir Il y eut un matin La Voie sauvage Quand la...
- lapon)[citation needed] Snow bunting - Plectrophenax nivalis - (French: plectrophane des neiges) accidental visitor Order: P****eriformes   Family: Emberizidae...
- Audubon's book. Audubon named a species of bird as Smith's Lark-Bunting or Plectrophanes Smithii but this had already been described as Calcarius pictus by Swainson...
- longspur (bruant lapon), Calcarius lapponicus Chestnut-collared longspur (plectrophane à ventre noir), Calcarius ornatus (A) Snow bunting (bruant des neiges)...
- in open gr****y areas. Lapland longspur (plectrophane lapon), Calcarius lapponicus Snow bunting (plectrophane des neiges), Plectrophenax nivalis Order:...
- longspur (plectrophane lapon), Calcarius lapponicus Smith's longspur (plectrophane de Smith), Calcarius pictus (C) Snow bunting (plectrophane des neiges)...