单词 | snow-bunting |
释义 | snow-buntingn. A fringilline bird, Plectrophanes nivalis, widely distributed in Arctic regions. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > plectrophenax nivalis (snow-bunting) snow-fleck1683 snow-bird1694 snowflake1770 snow-bunting1771 mountain bunting1776 oat-fowl1793 snow-fowl1813 snowman1893 1771 J. R. Forster Catal. Animals N. Amer. 11 Snow-bunting. Emberiza Nivalis. 1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 161 Snow Bunting. Size of the Chaffinch. 1811 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. III. 39 The Snow Bunting derives a considerable part of its food from the seeds of certain aquatic plants. 1843 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds I. 426 The Snow Bunting may be generally considered as only a winter visitor to this country. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 29 Titmice, redpoll linnets, snow buntings and other northern Fringillidæ. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1771 |
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