330 FRINGILLA CCELEBS. 



one inch and a quarter. The phimage is blended, slightly 

 glossed, the feathers rather narrow and rounded. The wings 

 are rather long, the primary quills tapering and rounded, the 

 secondary broader and retuse ; the third quill is the longest, 

 the fourth scarcely shorter, the second almost as long, the first 

 considerably shorter than the fifth ; the second, third, fourth, 

 and fifth slightly cut out on the outer w^eb towards the end. 



The bill is pale reddish-bro\Am, darker at the point, the lower 

 mandible flesh-coloured. The irides hazel ; the tarsi, toes, 

 and claws w^ood-browTi ; the mouth and skin at the angles 

 flesh-coloured. The frontal feathers are black, ti2:)ped w^ith 

 yellowish-brown ; those of the upper part of the head and hind- 

 neck light greyish-blue, tipped with reddish-brown ; the an- 

 terior dorsal reddish-brown, the posterior light yellowish-green. 

 The sides of the head, the fore-neck, and the anterior part of 

 the breast are light purplish-red ; the rest of the lower parts of 

 the same colour, but paler. The quills, large coverts, and 

 alula, are black ; quills white at the base and along the inner 

 margin, their outer edge towards the end yellow ; the secon- 

 dary coverts tipped with white, which is tinged with pale yel- 

 low ; first row of smaller coverts black at the base only, the 

 other parts white, as are the tips of many of the rest ; lower 

 wing-coverts greyish- white. Tail-feathers brownish-black, the 

 two middle brownish-grey, blackish along the shafts ; the outer 

 marked with an oblique band of white, including the middle 

 of the outer web and the terminal third of the inner, its shaft 

 black ; the next slightly margined with white internally, and 

 having a long triangular patch of the same towards the extre- 

 mity of the inner web. The concealed part of the feathers is 

 blackish-grey, with a whitish line along the shafts. 



Length to end of tail 6i inches ; extent of wings 11^; bill 

 along the ridge y^^, along the edge of lower mandible {'^ ; wing 

 from flexure 3| ; tail 2f ; tarsus | ; first toe Si twelfths, its 

 claw j^*2 '-> second toe 4^ twelfths, its claw 2i twelfths ; third 

 toe {'^, its claw 3i twelfths ; fourth toe 4i twelfths, its claw 

 2| twelfths. 



Female. — The female, which is considerably smaller, is 



