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Nestling. Resembles the old female in being brown above with 

 scarcely any yellow ; the wbole upper surface streaked with dusky 

 brown ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater 

 coverts dusky brown, externally pale brown and fulvous brown at the 

 tips, forming a double wing-bar, the outer greater coverts edged with 

 olive-yellow : bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish 

 brown, edged with olive-yellow, the secondaries with pale brown ; 

 tail-feathers dusky brown, edged with pale brown ; lores and feathers 

 over the eye saffron-buff; sides of face brown, washed with yellow; 

 under surface of body pale yellow, brighter on the chin : the throat, 

 breast, and sides of body streaked with dusky brown, the sides of the 

 body and flanks more fulvescent. 



The full-grown young bird resembles the nestling-plumage, but is 

 broadly streaked with dusky below, and has bright yellow edges to 

 the quills and a distinct yellow line to the tail-feathers. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-yellow, overshaded with 

 ashy grey, the feathers being edged with the latter colour ; lower 

 back and rump brighter olive-yellow ; scapulars, lesser and median 

 wing-coverts olive-yellow like the back ; greater coverts ashy grey ; 

 bastard-wing bright yellow, ashy grey at the ends ; primary-coverts 

 dusky, edged with olive-yellow, ashy towards the tips ; quills dusky, 

 the primaries edged with bright, yellow, the secondaries externally 

 ashy grey, the inner ones broadly edged and tipped with the latter 

 colour; upper tail-coverts olive-yellow, broadly edged with ashy grey; 

 tail-feathers yellow at the base, blackish at the ends and edged with 

 ashy grey ; crown of head like the back but strongly washed with 

 ashy ; lores blackish ; forehead and eyebrow brighter yellow ; sides 

 of face yellow ; ear-coverts ashy grey ; cheeks yellow, washed with 

 ashy ; under surface of body yellow, slightly washed with ashy grey ; 

 lower abdomen whitish ; sides of body and flanks browner, washed 

 with ashy ; thighs and under tail-coverts yellow, the latter margined 

 with ashy whitish ; under wing-coverts and axillaries bright yellow, 

 with ashj- bases ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge ; bill 

 fleshy pink ; legs, toes, and claws pale brown ; iris hazel. Total 

 length 6 inches, culmen 0*55, wing 3 - 35, tail 225, tarsus 0-7. 



The winter plumage of the adult male is distinguished by being 

 browner than the summer plumage, the olive-yellow being entirely 

 concealed. The yellow base to the tail and the yellow on the pri- 

 maries reaching to the shaft of the feather will always distinguish an 

 old male. 



Adult female. Browner than the male. General colour above 

 brown, with paler edges to the feathers of the mantle ; lower back 

 and rump greenish yellow ; lesser wing-coverts dull olive-yellow ; 

 median coverts dusky, washed with olive-yellow at the ends ; greater 

 coverts brown, washed with ashy and inclining to ashy whitish at 

 the ends ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, 

 edged with olive-yellow, the primaries brighter yellow on the outer 

 web ; the secondaries brown externally, the inner ones ashy towards 

 the ends like the greater coverts : upper tail-coverts dull ashy ; tail- 

 feathers blackish brown, edged with yellow near the base and with 



