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snow-finch
Also snow finch.
[f. snow n.1]
A species of mountain-finch. (See also quot. 1839.)
1783Latham Gen. Synop. Birds II. i. 264 Snow Finch..inhabits various parts of the European continent. 1829Griffith tr. Cuvier VII. 139 The Snow Finch, Fringilla Nivalis. 1839Audubon Ornith. Biog. V. 68 Oregon Snow-Finch, Fringilla Oregona. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 676 The Snow-Finch of the Alps, M[ontifringilla] nivalis, so often mistaken by travellers for the Snow-Bunting, Plectrophanes nivalis. 1894–5Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. III. 388 The snow-finches form a small group possessing the characteristic form of the true finches. |