snow-fleck
Also snowfleck, snow fleck.
[f. snow n.1 Cf. prec. 2.]
The snow-bunting, or Lapland bunting.
| 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. 1769 G. White Selborne xxviii, Your account of the greater brambling, or snow-fleck, is very amusing. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 304 The fieldfare,..snowfleck, and other birds of passage. 1873 Routledge's Young Gentl. Mag. Feb. 153/1 The Lapland Bunting.., often called the Snow-fleck. 1893 H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norf. 46 Snow fleck, snow bunting. |