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" The Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis), with its black, chestnut, and white plumage, that becomes black and white in the summer." A. H. Evans, 1900

Snow Bunting

" The Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis), with its black, chestnut, and white plumage, that becomes…

"Alle. Sea Dove. Size small. Bill very short, stout, and obtuse, as well as high at base, the sides of both mandibles turgid, the edge of the upper much infected; culmen very convex; rictus ample, decurved at end; gonys straight, very short, the mandibular rami correspondingly long, and widely divaricated; nasal fossae short, wide, deep, partly, patly feathered. Nostrils sub basal, more nearly circular than in any other genus excepting the next." Elliot Coues, 1884

Sea Dove Bill

"Alle. Sea Dove. Size small. Bill very short, stout, and obtuse, as well as high at base, the sides…