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FRINGILLID^. 



yellow ; primary-coverts black ; quills black, fringed with greyish 

 white at the tip, the secondaries more broadly, the inner ones 

 broadly edged with greyish white towards the tip ; the primaries 

 bright yellow towards the base of the outer web, forming a speculum ; 

 the first primary only slightly washed with yellow ; upper tail- 

 coverts dull greenish, ashy grey towards tho ends of the outer ones ; 

 tail-feathers pale yellow, bright yellow externally, the shafts and 

 ends of the feathers black, forming a band when the tail is spread, 

 the two centre feathers black, fringed with yellow ; crown of head 

 dull black ; hind neck blackish, slightly varied with yellow; fore- 

 head and a broad eyebrow bright yellow, with a few black tips to 

 the frontal plumes ; eyelid black, as well as a spot in front of the eye ; 

 lower edge of eyelid yellow like a streak below the eye ; ear-coverts 

 black, extending below the eye ; cheeks bright yellow, separated 

 from the throat by a broad streak of black, which crosses the middle 

 of the cheeks and joins the black below the eye ; the entire 

 under surface of body bright yellow ; sides of breast olive-greenish ; 

 sides of body and flanks browner, mottled with subterminal spots 

 of white ; thighs yellow ; under tail-coverts bright yellow ; under 

 wing-coverts, axillaries, and edge of the wing bright yellow ; quills 

 below blackish, yellow towards the base of the inner edge : " bill 

 fleshy pink ; feet pale fleshy brown " (A. 0. Hume). Total length 

 4-9 inches, culmen # 45, wing 3, tail 1-75, tarsus 0-6. 



The specimen described is one from Fagoo, shot in the end of 

 July, and apparently in full breeding-plumage. Specimens killed 

 in August are similar, and have the yellow forehead greatly de- 

 veloped, but have the plumage more worn. In November the 

 birds moult into winter plumage, which is not very different from 

 the breeding-plumage, except that the forehead is blackish like the 

 head, the lores and eyebrow being yellow. The vividness of the 

 latter colour depends more upon age than season, the older birds 

 being by far the brightest. The male obtained on the 25th of 

 October has the plumage much worn, and has a complete frontal 

 band of yellow, while the hind neck is so mottled with yellow as 

 almost to form a collar. 



The adult female only differs from the male in being rather 

 browner above, and never gets the yellow forehead, resembling 

 thus the male in winter plumage. The yellow colour is never so 

 bright and the sides of the body are dingy brown, many of the 

 chest-feathers being tipped with greenish brown : " bill fleshy pink, 

 paler at base of lower mandible ; legs and feet fleshy brown " 

 (A. 0. Hume). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 3, tail 2, 

 tarsus 0"55. 



Young (Masuri, Oct. 1869). Browner than the adults and striped 

 with blackish brown, the crown and rump resembling the back ; the 

 latter slightly tinged with yellow ; lesser wing-coverts like the 

 back ; median and greater coverts black, edged and tipped with 

 brownish buff; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black ; quills 

 black, tipped with brownish buff, broader and more yellowish ashy 

 on the ends of the inner secondaries ; primaries externally yellow 



