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Webster 1913 Edition
Longspur
Long′spurˊ
,Noun.
[So called from the length of the hind claw.]
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genus
Calcarius
(or Plectrophanes
), and allied genera. The Lapland longspur (Calcarius Lapponicus
), the chestnut-colored longspur (Calcarius ornatus
), and other species, inhabit the United States.