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white bird 
0 an Arctic sparrow, Plectrophenax nivalis.
See also: snow bunting
- 1760 The best musician of all the Canadian groves, is a sort of ortolan, the plumage of which is of an ash-colour on the back and white on the belly, whence it is called the white-bird. . . .
- 1959 Snow Bunting [is also called] white bird ("Labr.") . . . Oiseau blanc (White bird. Que.). . . .
2 a widely distributed ptarmigan, Lagopus lagopus albus.
See also: willow ptarmigan
- 1939 The "white birds" . . . as the Indians call them, were seen at each thicket of willows. . . .
- 1959 Willow Ptarmigan [is also called] white bird (Ont., "N. W.T."). . . .
- 1760 The best musician of all the Canadian groves, is a sort of ortolan, the plumage of which is of an ash-colour on the back and white on the belly, whence it is called the white-bird. . . .