Also snowfleck, snow fleck. [f. SNOW sb.1 Cf. prec. 2.] The snow-bunting, or Lapland bunting.

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1683.  A. Garden, in Macfarlane’s Geogr. Coll. (S.H.S.), II. 142. In winter there is great abundance of the small bird called the Snowfleck.

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1769.  G. White, Selborne, xxviii. Your account of the greater brambling, or snow-fleck, is very amusing.

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1844.  H. Stephens, Bk. Farm, I. 304. The fieldfare,… snowfleck, and other birds of passage.

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1873.  Routledge’s Young Gentl. Mag., Feb., 153/1. The Lapland Bunting…, often called the Snow-fleck.

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1893.  Cozens-Hardy, Broad Norf., 46. Snow Fleck—Snow Bunting.

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