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tertials edged with yellow, and median coverts tipped with yellowish 

 olive; greater coverts black with olive-yellow tips; rectrices, except the 

 middle pair, bright yellow with wide blackish brown tips, fringed witli 

 gray. A male from Calayan Island measures: Length, 114; wing, 70; 

 tail, 43; culmen from base, 13; tarsus, 15. 



Female. — Somewhat similar to the male, but the yellow much paler 

 and more restricted ; black cap and chin-spot wanting ; under parts nearly 

 all white and more heavily streaked with blackish ; above olive-green with 

 a hoary cast; head and neck spotted, and back streaked, with blackish; 

 yellow line above and behind eye mottled with olive-green; under parts 

 white or pale gray heavily streaked with blackish brown on sides, flanks, 

 breast, and sides of abdomen; middle of breast and abdomen white; sides 

 of head and of neck with obscure dusky streaks and a yellow wash. A 

 female measures: Wing, 70; tail, 42; culmen from base, 11; tarsus, 13. 



"Young birds resemble the old female, but are browner, with less yellow, 

 so that the rump, eyebrow, and sides of face are whitish; the upper sur- 

 face of the body is thickly mottled with blackish mesial streaks on all 

 the feathers, and the under surface is white thickly spotted with blackish 

 brown, the spots being triangular on the throat and breast, and longitu- 

 dinal on the sides of the body and flanks.^' (Sharpe.) 



The siskin as a Philippine species is known only from four specimens 

 taken in Calayan in the month of November, 1903. 



Genus EMBERIZA Linnsus, 1758. 



Bill small and conical, its outlines nearly straight; cutting edge of 

 upper mandible with a decided angle near its base; wing covering not 

 more than one-half the tail; tips of rectrices more rounded and the tail 

 less forked than in either Fringilla or Spinus. Plumage more or less 

 streaked with black; outermost rectrices nearly all white, but with an 

 oblique blackish mark near base of inner web and a small dusky mark 

 near tip; next pair black with a long white mark near shaft. 



Species. 



a'. Chin and throat chestnut; no yellow on under parts; lores, sides of face, 

 ear-coverts, and throat vinous-chestnut ; remaining under parts white ; breast 



and sides streaked with black pusilla (p. 683) 



a'. Chin and throat not chestnut; under parts more or less yellow. 

 6'. Throat dull ashy gray; lores and chin blackish (male). 



spodocephala ( p. 684 ) 

 fe^ Throat and breast yellow. 



c\ Sides of body and flanks reddish brown, streaked with black (female). 



spodocephala (p. 684) 

 c'. Sides of body and flanks yellow, streaked with black., sulphurata (p. 685) 



