152 FRINGILLID^. 



edged with light reddish-brown intermixed sparingly with 

 whitish-grey ; both middle and greater wing-coverts tipped 

 with pale reddish-brown (as in the nestling Mealy Redpoll), 

 forming two conspicuous light bars of unequal length on 

 the wing ; quills of both wings and tail dusky, bordered ex- 

 ternally with wood-brown, and the tertials broadly tipped 

 with light reddish-brown ; lower part of the back, rump 

 and upper tail-coverts dusky-brown, bordered with light 

 rufous, and the last tinged with crimson ; chin black ; 

 throat, chest and sides of the breast, glossy rose-pink, 

 mingled with dull white ; middle of the breast, the belly, 

 flanks and lower tail-coverts, dull greyish-white ; sides of the 

 body and flanks streaked with dusky-brown: legs and toes 

 blackish-brown, the claws darker. 



In autumn and winter the bill is yellow with the point 

 blackish, the light margins of the feathers are everywhere 

 longer, giving the upper parts of the bird a more rufescent 

 appearance, and the pink tint hardly makes any show until 

 after midwinter at the earliest. 



The whole length is four inches and a quarter ; from the 

 carpal joint to the end of the wing, two inches and five- 

 eighths ; the fourth primary is one-twelfth of an inch longer 

 than the fifth ; the tail is about two inches long. 



The female is a little smaller, and has no trace of pink on 

 the breast or rump ; the chin is brownish-black, and the 

 lower parts are dull brownish-white, the breast, sides of the 

 body and flanks being streaked with dusky brown. 



The nestling has the bill pale brown, with the upper 

 mandible rather darker : the head and nape dark brown — 

 each feather broadly edged Avith dull white ; back and 

 upper tail-coverts dark brown — the feathers bordered Avith 

 light reddish-brown ; the wings and tail resemble those of 

 the adult, but the feathers are edged and tipped with buft'; 

 the chin, neck, breast and flanks dull white, with a tinge of 

 light reddish-brown on the first, each feather tipped with 

 dark brown ; the belly, flanks and lower tail-coverts greyish- 

 white — the last being streaked with dark brown : the legs 

 and toes pale brown, the claws darker. 



