Painted

Unknown

Published

1932

Volume

9

Plate

537

Smith Longspur

Calcarius pictus

One of Nature's malignant forces, in the form of a blizzard, sometimes engulfs LONGSPURS. They seem to lose direction sense and then themselves, for thousands have been found dead from striking the ground. Blinding snow gave no chance to see where they were going and they flew full speed directly downward.

BREEDING

RANGE

Arctic barrens from Hudson Bay to Fort Yukon. South to central United States.

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