FRINGILLIDE. 193 
adult male has the beak bluish;* irides greyish 
white: round the base of the beak, and a streak 
from the gape to the eye, black; forehead yellowish 
white; back of the head, cheeks and ear-coverts 
yellowish brown; a collar round the back of the 
neck grey; back and scapulars dark reddish brown ; 
rump and tail-coverts yellowish brown; the lesser 
wing-coverts are generally black, but a few are white, 
forming, with some of the greater wing-coverts 
(which are white also), a largish white patch on the 
wing: the rest of the greater wing-coverts nearest 
the body are dull yellowish brown; primary quills 
black, with a patch of white on the inner web; 
secondaries black also, but beautifully glossed with 
blue, as are some of the primaries nearest the body 
(some of these feathers are very peculiarly shaped, 
having a sort of hook at the end of the narrow outer 
web); some of the tertials nearest the body are 
yellowish brown; tail has the basal half, and a long 
strip of the outer web of each feather, black, the rest 
white, tinged with brown on the outer web; throat 
black; the rest of the under parts brownish fawn- 
colour ; legs, toes and claws pale wood-brown. ‘The 
female is not so distinctly marked as the male; the 
secondary quills are rather broadly margined with 
* Mr. Doubleday, in the paper above alluded to, says 
the beak in winter is pinkish horn, but becomes deep blue in 
the breeding-season. 
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