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(Snaw fleck,) Snow fleck, Snowflect, n. [18th c. Eng. snow-fleck (1769); Snaw n.] The snow-bunting. — 1683 Coll. Aberd. & B. 106.
In winter there is great abundance of the small bird called the snow fleck. It is supposed to be the moor sparrow or lint white … a little whiter in the winter 1684 Sibbald Scot. Illustr. III 18.
Fringilla, nostratibus snowfleck & shoulfall 1701 Brand Orkney & Shetl. 153.
There is a kind of fowls called snowflects which resort to this countrey … in Februair … about the bigness of a sparrow, but exceeding fat and delicious
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