SPINUS. 681 
remainder of under parts dirty pale gray, washed with fulvous-brown 
on sides, flanks, thighs, and tail-coverts; wings and tail brown, most of 
the wing-feathers edged with dull cinnamon-rufous; lesser coverts dull 
chestnut; median coverts blackish, tipped with white; greater coverts 
edged with cinnamon-rufous and tipped with white; the tips of median 
and greater coverts forming bars; second to fifth primaries with an 
ocherous-buff band on outer webs near the tip of primary-coverts. A 
male from Manila measures: Length, 140; wing, 66; tail, 52; culmen 
from base, 13; tarsus, 17. A female, wing, 68; tail, 54; culmen from 
base, 14; tarsus, 17. 
Young.—Color pattern like that of the adult, but upper parts lighter ; 
crown and neck dark clay-brown, cinnamon on sides of occiput and sides 
of neck; back with broad streaks of buff; ear-coverts, chin, and throat 
slate-gray and the areas not so well defined as in the adult. 
The mountain, or tree, sparrow is an introduced species in the Philip- 
pine Islands. It is found in considerable numbers about Manila and in 
towns along the railroads. It is also abundant in the town of Cebu. 
Genus SPINUS Koch, 1816. 
Bill slender and acute, its distal half greatly compressed ; culmen 
straight, without a decided ridge; wings very long, reaching nearly to the 
tip of tail which is forked. Colors canary-yellow, black, and white. 
696. SPINUS SPINUS (Linneus). 
' SISKIN. 
Fringilla spinus LINN&US, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 181. 
Chrysomitris spinus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1888), 12, 212; Meo- 
GrReEGOR, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 24. 
Spinus spinus McGrRreGcor and WoRCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 104. 
Calayan (McGregor). British Islands, Europe, northern Asia, and Siberia; in 
winter to Japan, southern China, and the Liu Kiu Islands. 
Male.—General color lemon-yellow; crown and nape black; back and 
scapulars yellowish green with dark shaft-lines ; rump yellow; tail-coverts 
olive-green; chin and middle of fore throat black; a band from above 
center of eye to neck lemon-yellow ; ear-coverts washed with olive; cheeks, 
sides of neck and of throat, and remaining under parts bright lemon- 
yellow, becoming white on middle of abdomen; flanks streaked with black ; 
feathers of thighs drab-gray tipped with white; under tail-coverts yellow 
with broad dusky shaft-marks and white tips; wing-feathers blackish 
brown ; primaries, except the first, narrowly edged with yellow and, except 
the outer three, with a spot of yellow on outer web near the tips of the 
coverts, forming a bar, which is continued on the outer webs of the 
secondaries, each of the latter has also a large yellow spot near the tip; 
