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FRINGILLID^. 



Adult female. Rather browner on the head than the male and 

 not so ashy ; no black on the face or chin ; ear-coverts brown, 

 streaked with yellowish shaft-lines ; lores, eyelid, and an indistinct 

 eyebrow yellowish buff; a broad cheek-stripe of pale sulphur-yellow 

 widening out on the side of the neck ; throat and under surface of 

 body pale sulphur-yellow, olive-greenish on the throat and fore neck : 

 a distinct malar streak of dusky blackish spots ; sides of body and 

 flanks reddish brown, streaked with black ; lower abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts yellowish white. 



Old females in the breeding-season become a little more ashy on 

 the head and neck. Young birds are always browner than the 

 adults above, and have a number of dusky spots on the throat ; 

 otherwise they greatly resemble the old females. Young females 

 (Mus. II. Seebohm) are pale brown above, with less developed black 

 centres on the mantle, the head brown, washed with rufous and 

 streaked with black ; under surface dull white, with only a slight 

 tinge of sulphur-yellow on the abdomen and axillaries ; the throat 

 pale olive-yellow, browner on the fore neck and chest, with brown 

 shaft-lines. Young males in winter plumage resemble the adult 

 female, but seem to have more dusky spots on the throat, which 

 commences to become dusky olive in April, with blackish on the 

 chin. Some (probably of an earlier brood) have dusky olive throats 

 in November, but always show dusky spots. 



Hub. Siberia, eastwards from the Yenesai Valley. Japan, win- 

 tering in China, the eastern Himalayas, Assam, and Manipur. 





