Western Bird Guide: Birds of the Rockies and West to the Pacific

by Charles K. Reed

McKAY SNOW BUNTING.

535. Plectrophenax hyperboreus. 7 inches.

This species is still more white than the preceding, having only a few specks of black on the tips of the primaries, and the central tail feather. They build, in crevices of the rocks on the ground, a nest of grass, lined with moss and feathers.